INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.050","1ES","8","E18_50","<span class='v E18_50' data-id='E18_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>And there I vowed a fast to the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and them that were with us, for our children, and for the cattle: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.051","1ES","8","E18_51","<span class='v E18_51' data-id='E18_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>For I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.052","1ES","8","E18_52","<span class='v E18_52' data-id='E18_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>For we had said to the king, that the power of the Lord our God should be with them that seek him, to support them in all ways. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.053","1ES","8","E18_53","<span class='v E18_53' data-id='E18_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>And again we implored our Lord as touching these things, and found him favourable to us. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.054","1ES","8","E18_54","<span class='v E18_54' data-id='E18_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Esebrias, and Assanias, and ten men of their brethren with them: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.055","1ES","8","E18_55","<span class='v E18_55' data-id='E18_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>And I weighed them the gold, and the silver, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his council, and the princes, and all Israel, had given. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.056","1ES","8","E18_56","<span class='v E18_56' data-id='E18_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>And when I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of an hundred talents, and an hundred talents of gold, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.057","1ES","8","E18_57","<span class='v E18_57' data-id='E18_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>And twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.058","1ES","8","E18_58","<span class='v E18_58' data-id='E18_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>And I said to them, Both you° are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver is a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.059","1ES","8","E18_59","<span class='v E18_59' data-id='E18_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>Watch you°, and keep them till you° deliver them to the chief of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, into the chambers of the house of our God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.060","1ES","8","E18_60","<span class='v E18_60' data-id='E18_60'><span class='v-num v-60'>60&#160;</span>So the priests and the Levites, who had received the silver and the gold and the vessels, brought them to Jerusalem, into the temple of the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.061","1ES","8","E18_61","<span class='v E18_61' data-id='E18_61'><span class='v-num v-61'>61&#160;</span>And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, and came to Jerusalem by the mighty hand of our Lord, which was with us: and from the beginning of our journey the Lord delivered us from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.062","1ES","8","E18_62","<span class='v E18_62' data-id='E18_62'><span class='v-num v-62'>62&#160;</span>And when we had been there three days, the gold and silver that was weighed was delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day to Marmoth the priest the son of Iri. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.063","1ES","8","E18_63","<span class='v E18_63' data-id='E18_63'><span class='v-num v-63'>63&#160;</span>And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabad the son of Jesu and Moeth the son of Sabban, Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.064","1ES","8","E18_64","<span class='v E18_64' data-id='E18_64'><span class='v-num v-64'>64&#160;</span>And all the weight of them was written up the same hour. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.065","1ES","8","E18_65","<span class='v E18_65' data-id='E18_65'><span class='v-num v-65'>65&#160;</span>Moreover they that were come out of the captivity offered sacrifice to the Lord God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.066","1ES","8","E18_66","<span class='v E18_66' data-id='E18_66'><span class='v-num v-66'>66&#160;</span>Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.067","1ES","8","E18_67","<span class='v E18_67' data-id='E18_67'><span class='v-num v-67'>67&#160;</span>And they delivered the king's commandments to the king's stewards' and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they honored the people and the temple of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.068","1ES","8","E18_68","<span class='v E18_68' data-id='E18_68'><span class='v-num v-68'>68&#160;</span>Now when these things were done, the rulers came to me, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.069","1ES","8","E18_69","<span class='v E18_69' data-id='E18_69'><span class='v-num v-69'>69&#160;</span>The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.070","1ES","8","E18_70","<span class='v E18_70' data-id='E18_70'><span class='v-num v-70'>70&#160;</span>For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.071","1ES","8","E18_71","<span class='v E18_71' data-id='E18_71'><span class='v-num v-71'>71&#160;</span>And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes, and the holy garment, and pulled off the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and very heavy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.072","1ES","8","E18_72","<span class='v E18_72' data-id='E18_72'><span class='v-num v-72'>72&#160;</span>So all they that were then moved at the word of the Lord God of Israel assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.073","1ES","8","E18_73","<span class='v E18_73' data-id='E18_73'><span class='v-num v-73'>73&#160;</span>Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and the holy garment tore, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands to the Lord, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.074","1ES","8","E18_74","<span class='v E18_74' data-id='E18_74'><span class='v-num v-74'>74&#160;</span>I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before your face; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.075","1ES","8","E18_75","<span class='v E18_75' data-id='E18_75'><span class='v-num v-75'>75&#160;</span>For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up to heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.076","1ES","8","E18_76","<span class='v E18_76' data-id='E18_76'><span class='v-num v-76'>76&#160;</span>For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even to this day. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.077","1ES","8","E18_77","<span class='v E18_77' data-id='E18_77'><span class='v-num v-77'>77&#160;</span>And for our sins and our fathers' we with our brethren and our kings and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.078","1ES","8","E18_78","<span class='v E18_78' data-id='E18_78'><span class='v-num v-78'>78&#160;</span>And now in some measure has mercy been showed to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.079","1ES","8","E18_79","<span class='v E18_79' data-id='E18_79'><span class='v-num v-79'>79&#160;</span>And to discover to us a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.080","1ES","8","E18_80","<span class='v E18_80' data-id='E18_80'><span class='v-num v-80'>80&#160;</span>Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.081","1ES","8","E18_81","<span class='v E18_81' data-id='E18_81'><span class='v-num v-81'>81&#160;</span>Yes, and honored the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, that they have given us a sure dwelling in Jewry and Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.082","1ES","8","E18_82","<span class='v E18_82' data-id='E18_82'><span class='v-num v-82'>82&#160;</span>And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? for we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.083","1ES","8","E18_83","<span class='v E18_83' data-id='E18_83'><span class='v-num v-83'>83&#160;</span>That the land, which you° enter into to possess as an heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.084","1ES","8","E18_84","<span class='v E18_84' data-id='E18_84'><span class='v-num v-84'>84&#160;</span>Therefore now shall you° not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you° take their daughters to your sons. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.085","1ES","8","E18_85","<span class='v E18_85' data-id='E18_85'><span class='v-num v-85'>85&#160;</span>Moreover you° shall never seek to have peace with them, that you° may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you° may leave the inheritance of the land to your children for evermore. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.086","1ES","8","E18_86","<span class='v E18_86' data-id='E18_86'><span class='v-num v-86'>86&#160;</span>And all that is befallen is done to us for our wicked works and great sins; for you, O Lord, did make our sins light, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.087","1ES","8","E18_87","<span class='v E18_87' data-id='E18_87'><span class='v-num v-87'>87&#160;</span>And did give to us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress your law, and to mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.088","1ES","8","E18_88","<span class='v E18_88' data-id='E18_88'><span class='v-num v-88'>88&#160;</span>Mightest not you be angry with us to destroy us, till you had left us neither root, seed, nor name? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.089","1ES","8","E18_89","<span class='v E18_89' data-id='E18_89'><span class='v-num v-89'>89&#160;</span>O Lord of Israel, you are true: for we are left a root this day. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.090","1ES","8","E18_90","<span class='v E18_90' data-id='E18_90'><span class='v-num v-90'>90&#160;</span>Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer by reason of these things before you. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.091","1ES","8","E18_91","<span class='v E18_91' data-id='E18_91'><span class='v-num v-91'>91&#160;</span>And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered to him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.092","1ES","8","E18_92","<span class='v E18_92' data-id='E18_92'><span class='v-num v-92'>92&#160;</span>Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.093","1ES","8","E18_93","<span class='v E18_93' data-id='E18_93'><span class='v-num v-93'>93&#160;</span>Let us make an oath to the Lord, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the heathen, with their children, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.094","1ES","8","E18_94","<span class='v E18_94' data-id='E18_94'><span class='v-num v-94'>94&#160;</span>Like as you have decreed, and as many as do obey the law of the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.095","1ES","8","E18_95","<span class='v E18_95' data-id='E18_95'><span class='v-num v-95'>95&#160;</span>Arise and put in execution: for to you does this matter appertain, and we will be with you: do valiantly. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.008.096","1ES","8","E18_96","<span class='v E18_96' data-id='E18_96'><span class='v-num v-96'>96&#160;</span>So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.001","1ES","9","E19_1","<div class='c'>9</div><div class='p'><span class='v E19_1' data-id='E19_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.002","1ES","9","E19_2","<span class='v E19_2' data-id='E19_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>And remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.003","1ES","9","E19_3","<span class='v E19_3' data-id='E19_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.004","1ES","9","E19_4","<span class='v E19_4' data-id='E19_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>And that whoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from them that were of the captivity. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.005","1ES","9","E19_5","<span class='v E19_5' data-id='E19_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth month. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.006","1ES","9","E19_6","<span class='v E19_6' data-id='E19_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present foul weather. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.007","1ES","9","E19_7","<span class='v E19_7' data-id='E19_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>So Esdras arose up, and said to them, You° have transgressed the law in marrying strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.008","1ES","9","E19_8","<span class='v E19_8' data-id='E19_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>And now by confessing give glory to the Lord God of our fathers, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.009","1ES","9","E19_9","<span class='v E19_9' data-id='E19_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.010","1ES","9","E19_10","<span class='v E19_10' data-id='E19_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Like as you have spoken, so will we do. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.011","1ES","9","E19_11","<span class='v E19_11' data-id='E19_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand without, and this is not a work of a day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.012","1ES","9","E19_12","<span class='v E19_12' data-id='E19_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.013","1ES","9","E19_13","<span class='v E19_13' data-id='E19_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.014","1ES","9","E19_14","<span class='v E19_14' data-id='E19_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezechias the son of Theocanus accordingly took this matter upon them: and Mosollam and Levis and Sabbatheus helped them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.015","1ES","9","E19_15","<span class='v E19_15' data-id='E19_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>And they that were of the captivity did according to all these things. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.016","1ES","9","E19_16","<span class='v E19_16' data-id='E19_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>And Esdras the priest chose to him the principal men of their families, all by name: and in the first day of the tenth month they sat together to examine the matter. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.017","1ES","9","E19_17","<span class='v E19_17' data-id='E19_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end in the first day of the first month. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.018","1ES","9","E19_18","<span class='v E19_18' data-id='E19_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.019","1ES","9","E19_19","<span class='v E19_19' data-id='E19_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Matthelas and Eleazar, and Joribus and Joadanus. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.020","1ES","9","E19_20","<span class='v E19_20' data-id='E19_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>And they gave their hands to put away their wives and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their errors. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.021","1ES","9","E19_21","<span class='v E19_21' data-id='E19_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>And of the sons of Emmer; Ananias, and Zabdeus, and Eanes, and Sameius, and Hiereel, and Azarias. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.022","1ES","9","E19_22","<span class='v E19_22' data-id='E19_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>And of the sons of Phaisur; Elionas, Massias Israel, and Nathanael, and Ocidelus and Talsas. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.023","1ES","9","E19_23","<span class='v E19_23' data-id='E19_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>And of the Levites; Jozabad, and Semis, and Colius, who was called Calitas, and Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.024","1ES","9","E19_24","<span class='v E19_24' data-id='E19_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Of the holy singers; Eleazurus, Bacchurus. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.025","1ES","9","E19_25","<span class='v E19_25' data-id='E19_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Of the porters; Sallumus, and Tolbanes. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.026","1ES","9","E19_26","<span class='v E19_26' data-id='E19_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Of them of Israel, of the sons of Phoros; Hiermas, and Eddias, and Melchias, and Maelus, and Eleazar, and Asibias, and Baanias. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.027","1ES","9","E19_27","<span class='v E19_27' data-id='E19_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Of the sons of Ela; Matthanias, Zacharias, and Hierielus, and Hieremoth, and Aedias. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.028","1ES","9","E19_28","<span class='v E19_28' data-id='E19_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>And of the sons of Zamoth; Eliadas, Elisimus, Othonias, Jarimoth, and Sabatus, and Sardeus. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.029","1ES","9","E19_29","<span class='v E19_29' data-id='E19_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Of the sons of Babai; Johannes, and Ananias and Josabad, and Amatheis. </span>");
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INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.035","1ES","9","E19_35","<span class='v E19_35' data-id='E19_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>And of the sons of Ethma; Mazitias, Zabadaias, Edes, Juel, Banaias. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.036","1ES","9","E19_36","<span class='v E19_36' data-id='E19_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.037","1ES","9","E19_37","<span class='v E19_37' data-id='E19_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel, lived in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the seventh month: so the children of Israel were in their habitations. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.038","1ES","9","E19_38","<span class='v E19_38' data-id='E19_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>And the whole multitude came together with one accord into the broad place of the holy porch toward the east: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.039","1ES","9","E19_39","<span class='v E19_39' data-id='E19_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>And they spoke to Esdras the priest and reader, that he would bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord God of Israel. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.040","1ES","9","E19_40","<span class='v E19_40' data-id='E19_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>So Esdras the chief priest brought the law to the whole multitude from man to woman, and to all the priests, to hear law in the first day of the seventh month. </span>");
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INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.044","1ES","9","E19_44","<span class='v E19_44' data-id='E19_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>And upon his left hand stood Phaldaius, Misael, Melchias, Lothasubus, and Nabarias. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.045","1ES","9","E19_45","<span class='v E19_45' data-id='E19_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude: for he sat honorably in the first place in the sight of them all. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.046","1ES","9","E19_46","<span class='v E19_46' data-id='E19_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God most High, the God of hosts, Almighty. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.047","1ES","9","E19_47","<span class='v E19_47' data-id='E19_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.048","1ES","9","E19_48","<span class='v E19_48' data-id='E19_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>Also Jesus, Anus, Sarabias, Adinus, Jacubus, Sabateas, Auteas, Maianeas, and Calitas, Azarias, and Joazabdus, and Ananias, Biatas, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, making them withal to understand it. </span>");
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INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.050","1ES","9","E19_50","<span class='v E19_50' data-id='E19_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>This day is holy to the Lord; (for they all wept when they heard the law:) </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.051","1ES","9","E19_51","<span class='v E19_51' data-id='E19_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>Go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part to them that have nothing; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.052","1ES","9","E19_52","<span class='v E19_52' data-id='E19_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>For this day is holy to the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honor. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.053","1ES","9","E19_53","<span class='v E19_53' data-id='E19_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.054","1ES","9","E19_54","<span class='v E19_54' data-id='E19_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Then they went their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give part to them that had nothing, and to make great cheer; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("054.009.055","1ES","9","E19_55","<span class='v E19_55' data-id='E19_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>Because they understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.001","MAN","1","PN1_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v PN1_1' data-id='PN1_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>O LORD Almighty, the God of our fathers Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous seed; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.002","MAN","1","PN1_2","<span class='v PN1_2' data-id='PN1_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>that have made the heaven and the earth with all their adornment; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.003","MAN","1","PN1_3","<span class='v PN1_3' data-id='PN1_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>that have bound the sea with the word of your commandment; that have closed the abyss and sealed it with your fearful and glorious name; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.004","MAN","1","PN1_4","<span class='v PN1_4' data-id='PN1_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>whom all things revere and tremble before the face of your power, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.005","MAN","1","PN1_5","<span class='v PN1_5' data-id='PN1_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>because the magnificence of your glory is unendurable and irresistible the wrath of your threatening against sinners: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.006","MAN","1","PN1_6","<span class='v PN1_6' data-id='PN1_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>the mercy of your promise is both immeasurable and inscrutable; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.007","MAN","1","PN1_7","<span class='v PN1_7' data-id='PN1_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>for you are the Lord most high, compassionate, longsuffering, and most merciful, repenting of the evils of men. You, Lord, according to the abundance of your goodness, have proclaimed repentance and forgiveness to those that have sinned against you, and in the multitude of your kindnesses you have decreed for sinners repentance to salvation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.008","MAN","1","PN1_8","<span class='v PN1_8' data-id='PN1_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Surely you, O Lord, the God of the just, have not appointed repentance for the just, for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob who have not sinned against you; but you have appointed repentance for me a sinner: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.009","MAN","1","PN1_9","<span class='v PN1_9' data-id='PN1_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>for I have sinned above the number of the sand of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord, they are multiplied, and I am not worthy to look at or see the height of heaven, for the multitude of my iniquities, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.010","MAN","1","PN1_10","<span class='v PN1_10' data-id='PN1_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>being bowed down by many iron bonds, so that I can’t uplift my head, and there is no release for me, because I have provoked your anger, and have done evil before you, not doing your will, nor keeping your commandments, but setting up abominations and multiplying offenses. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.011","MAN","1","PN1_11","<span class='v PN1_11' data-id='PN1_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And now I bend the knee of my heart, beseeching your goodness: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.012","MAN","1","PN1_12","<span class='v PN1_12' data-id='PN1_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my transgressions: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.013","MAN","1","PN1_13","<span class='v PN1_13' data-id='PN1_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>but I pray and beseech you, release me, Lord, release me, and destroy me not with my transgressions; keep not evils for me in anger for ever, nor condemn me to the lowest parts of the earth: because you are God, the God of the repenting; and in me you will show all your benevolence, for that me unworthy you will save, according to your great mercy: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("055.001.014","MAN","1","PN1_14","<span class='v PN1_14' data-id='PN1_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>and I will praise you continually all the days of my life: for all the hosts of the heavens sings to you, and your is the glory for ever and ever. Amen. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.001","3MA","1","M31_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v M31_1' data-id='M31_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.002","3MA","1","M31_2","<span class='v M31_2' data-id='M31_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.003","3MA","1","M31_3","<span class='v M31_3' data-id='M31_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.004","3MA","1","M31_4","<span class='v M31_4' data-id='M31_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them two minas of gold apiece. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.005","3MA","1","M31_5","<span class='v M31_5' data-id='M31_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.006","3MA","1","M31_6","<span class='v M31_6' data-id='M31_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighbouring cities, and encourage them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.007","3MA","1","M31_7","<span class='v M31_7' data-id='M31_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.008","3MA","1","M31_8","<span class='v M31_8' data-id='M31_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest-gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.009","3MA","1","M31_9","<span class='v M31_9' data-id='M31_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.010","3MA","1","M31_10","<span class='v M31_10' data-id='M31_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.011","3MA","1","M31_11","<span class='v M31_11' data-id='M31_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.012","3MA","1","M31_12","<span class='v M31_12' data-id='M31_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honor, I ought not to be. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.013","3MA","1","M31_13","<span class='v M31_13' data-id='M31_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbad him? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.014","3MA","1","M31_14","<span class='v M31_14' data-id='M31_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>He was thoroughly answered by some one, That he did wrong to boast of this. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.015","3MA","1","M31_15","<span class='v M31_15' data-id='M31_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.016","3MA","1","M31_16","<span class='v M31_16' data-id='M31_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.017","3MA","1","M31_17","<span class='v M31_17' data-id='M31_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.018","3MA","1","M31_18","<span class='v M31_18' data-id='M31_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.019","3MA","1","M31_19","<span class='v M31_19' data-id='M31_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.020","3MA","1","M31_20","<span class='v M31_20' data-id='M31_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.021","3MA","1","M31_21","<span class='v M31_21' data-id='M31_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.022","3MA","1","M31_22","<span class='v M31_22' data-id='M31_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.023","3MA","1","M31_23","<span class='v M31_23' data-id='M31_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defence of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.024","3MA","1","M31_24","<span class='v M31_24' data-id='M31_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>During this time the multitude kept on praying. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.025","3MA","1","M31_25","<span class='v M31_25' data-id='M31_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>The elders who surrounded the king strove in many ways to divert his haughty mind from the design which he had formed. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.026","3MA","1","M31_26","<span class='v M31_26' data-id='M31_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onwards with the view of carrying out this design. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.027","3MA","1","M31_27","<span class='v M31_27' data-id='M31_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.028","3MA","1","M31_28","<span class='v M31_28' data-id='M31_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.001.029","3MA","1","M31_29","<span class='v M31_29' data-id='M31_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled. </span>");
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INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.002","3MA","2","M32_2","<span class='v M32_2' data-id='M32_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who exults in his confidence and strength. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.003","3MA","2","M32_3","<span class='v M32_3' data-id='M32_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.004","3MA","2","M32_4","<span class='v M32_4' data-id='M32_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>It was you who did destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and hardihood, by covering them with a measureless flood. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.005","3MA","2","M32_5","<span class='v M32_5' data-id='M32_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>It was you who did make the Sodomites, those workers of exceeding iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when you did cover them with fire and brimstone. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.006","3MA","2","M32_6","<span class='v M32_6' data-id='M32_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>You did make known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.007","3MA","2","M32_7","<span class='v M32_7' data-id='M32_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And you rolled the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.008","3MA","2","M32_8","<span class='v M32_8' data-id='M32_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you the Almighty. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.009","3MA","2","M32_9","<span class='v M32_9' data-id='M32_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>You, O King, when you created the illimitable and measureless earth, did choose out this city: you did make this place sacred to your name, albeit you need nothing: you did glorify it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honorable name. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.010","3MA","2","M32_10","<span class='v M32_10' data-id='M32_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.011","3MA","2","M32_11","<span class='v M32_11' data-id='M32_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Verily you are faithful and true. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.012","3MA","2","M32_12","<span class='v M32_12' data-id='M32_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And when you did often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and delivered them out of gret dangers, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.013","3MA","2","M32_13","<span class='v M32_13' data-id='M32_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.014","3MA","2","M32_14","<span class='v M32_14' data-id='M32_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.015","3MA","2","M32_15","<span class='v M32_15' data-id='M32_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.016","3MA","2","M32_16","<span class='v M32_16' data-id='M32_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory among your people Israel, you did sanctify this place. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.017","3MA","2","M32_17","<span class='v M32_17' data-id='M32_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.018","3MA","2","M32_18","<span class='v M32_18' data-id='M32_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.019","3MA","2","M32_19","<span class='v M32_19' data-id='M32_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and show forth your compassion in this hour. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.020","3MA","2","M32_20","<span class='v M32_20' data-id='M32_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.021","3MA","2","M32_21","<span class='v M32_21' data-id='M32_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.022","3MA","2","M32_22","<span class='v M32_22' data-id='M32_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.023","3MA","2","M32_23","<span class='v M32_23' data-id='M32_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.024","3MA","2","M32_24","<span class='v M32_24' data-id='M32_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.025","3MA","2","M32_25","<span class='v M32_25' data-id='M32_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his before mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.026","3MA","2","M32_26","<span class='v M32_26' data-id='M32_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.027","3MA","2","M32_27","<span class='v M32_27' data-id='M32_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; therefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.028","3MA","2","M32_28","<span class='v M32_28' data-id='M32_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.029","3MA","2","M32_29","<span class='v M32_29' data-id='M32_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.030","3MA","2","M32_30","<span class='v M32_30' data-id='M32_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.031","3MA","2","M32_31","<span class='v M32_31' data-id='M32_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.032","3MA","2","M32_32","<span class='v M32_32' data-id='M32_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.002.033","3MA","2","M32_33","<span class='v M32_33' data-id='M32_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.001","3MA","3","M33_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v M33_1' data-id='M33_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.002","3MA","3","M33_2","<span class='v M33_2' data-id='M33_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>While this was going on, an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.003","3MA","3","M33_3","<span class='v M33_3' data-id='M33_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of un-swerving loyalty towards the kings, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.004","3MA","3","M33_4","<span class='v M33_4' data-id='M33_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>yet, as they worshipped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.005","3MA","3","M33_5","<span class='v M33_5' data-id='M33_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.006","3MA","3","M33_6","<span class='v M33_6' data-id='M33_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.007","3MA","3","M33_7","<span class='v M33_7' data-id='M33_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king's interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.008","3MA","3","M33_8","<span class='v M33_8' data-id='M33_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favourable turn of affairs: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.009","3MA","3","M33_9","<span class='v M33_9' data-id='M33_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>He who knows all things, will not, <span class='add'>said they,</span> disregard so great a people. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.010","3MA","3","M33_10","<span class='v M33_10' data-id='M33_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.011","3MA","3","M33_11","<span class='v M33_11' data-id='M33_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.012","3MA","3","M33_12","<span class='v M33_12' data-id='M33_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.013","3MA","3","M33_13","<span class='v M33_13' data-id='M33_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>I am right well; and so, too, are my affairs. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.014","3MA","3","M33_14","<span class='v M33_14' data-id='M33_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you° know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigour, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.015","3MA","3","M33_15","<span class='v M33_15' data-id='M33_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.016","3MA","3","M33_16","<span class='v M33_16' data-id='M33_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.017","3MA","3","M33_17","<span class='v M33_17' data-id='M33_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honor it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.018","3MA","3","M33_18","<span class='v M33_18' data-id='M33_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.019","3MA","3","M33_19","<span class='v M33_19' data-id='M33_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.020","3MA","3","M33_20","<span class='v M33_20' data-id='M33_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>We then, having endeavoured to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.021","3MA","3","M33_21","<span class='v M33_21' data-id='M33_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen <span class='add'>at Jerusalem,</span> but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.022","3MA","3","M33_22","<span class='v M33_22' data-id='M33_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.023","3MA","3","M33_23","<span class='v M33_23' data-id='M33_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed towards us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.024","3MA","3","M33_24","<span class='v M33_24' data-id='M33_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Having then, received certain proofs that these <span class='add'>Jews</span> bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.025","3MA","3","M33_25","<span class='v M33_25' data-id='M33_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those <span class='add'>Jews</span> who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.026","3MA","3","M33_26","<span class='v M33_26' data-id='M33_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.027","3MA","3","M33_27","<span class='v M33_27' data-id='M33_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or suckling, shall with his whole house be tortured to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.028","3MA","3","M33_28","<span class='v M33_28' data-id='M33_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Whoever shall inform against the <span class='add'>Jews,</span> besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.029","3MA","3","M33_29","<span class='v M33_29' data-id='M33_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be for ever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.003.030","3MA","3","M33_30","<span class='v M33_30' data-id='M33_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Such was the purport of the king's letter. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.001","3MA","4","M34_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v M34_1' data-id='M34_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.002","3MA","4","M34_2","<span class='v M34_2' data-id='M34_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.003","3MA","4","M34_3","<span class='v M34_3' data-id='M34_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition did not fill with wailing and lamentation? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.004","3MA","4","M34_4","<span class='v M34_4' data-id='M34_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.005","3MA","4","M34_5","<span class='v M34_5' data-id='M34_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.006","3MA","4","M34_6","<span class='v M34_6' data-id='M34_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.007","3MA","4","M34_7","<span class='v M34_7' data-id='M34_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.008","3MA","4","M34_8","<span class='v M34_8' data-id='M34_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.009","3MA","4","M34_9","<span class='v M34_9' data-id='M34_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.010","3MA","4","M34_10","<span class='v M34_10' data-id='M34_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>The planks of the deck above them barred out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.011","3MA","4","M34_11","<span class='v M34_11' data-id='M34_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; nay, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.012","3MA","4","M34_12","<span class='v M34_12' data-id='M34_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When this was done, the king, hearing that their brethren in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.013","3MA","4","M34_13","<span class='v M34_13' data-id='M34_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one whit milder) treatment. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.014","3MA","4","M34_14","<span class='v M34_14' data-id='M34_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.015","3MA","4","M34_15","<span class='v M34_15' data-id='M34_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.016","3MA","4","M34_16","<span class='v M34_16' data-id='M34_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.017","3MA","4","M34_17","<span class='v M34_17' data-id='M34_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.018","3MA","4","M34_18","<span class='v M34_18' data-id='M34_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.019","3MA","4","M34_19","<span class='v M34_19' data-id='M34_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.020","3MA","4","M34_20","<span class='v M34_20' data-id='M34_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.004.021","3MA","4","M34_21","<span class='v M34_21' data-id='M34_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.001","3MA","5","M35_1","<div class='c'>5</div><div class='p'><span class='v M35_1' data-id='M35_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.002","3MA","5","M35_2","<span class='v M35_2' data-id='M35_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense <span class='add'>infused</span> to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.003","3MA","5","M35_3","<span class='v M35_3' data-id='M35_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.004","3MA","5","M35_4","<span class='v M35_4' data-id='M35_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.005","3MA","5","M35_5","<span class='v M35_5' data-id='M35_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about eventide and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.006","3MA","5","M35_6","<span class='v M35_6' data-id='M35_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.007","3MA","5","M35_7","<span class='v M35_7' data-id='M35_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.008","3MA","5","M35_8","<span class='v M35_8' data-id='M35_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.009","3MA","5","M35_9","<span class='v M35_9' data-id='M35_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Their litany so earnest went up to heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.010","3MA","5","M35_10","<span class='v M35_10' data-id='M35_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mingled wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.011","3MA","5","M35_11","<span class='v M35_11' data-id='M35_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.012","3MA","5","M35_12","<span class='v M35_12' data-id='M35_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.013","3MA","5","M35_13","<span class='v M35_13' data-id='M35_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.014","3MA","5","M35_14","<span class='v M35_14' data-id='M35_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The middle of the tenth hour had well near arrived, when the master-bidder, seeing the guests who were bidden collected, came and shook the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.015","3MA","5","M35_15","<span class='v M35_15' data-id='M35_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.016","3MA","5","M35_16","<span class='v M35_16' data-id='M35_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.017","3MA","5","M35_17","<span class='v M35_17' data-id='M35_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.018","3MA","5","M35_18","<span class='v M35_18' data-id='M35_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and enquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.019","3MA","5","M35_19","<span class='v M35_19' data-id='M35_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.020","3MA","5","M35_20","<span class='v M35_20' data-id='M35_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.021","3MA","5","M35_21","<span class='v M35_21' data-id='M35_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.022","3MA","5","M35_22","<span class='v M35_22' data-id='M35_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.023","3MA","5","M35_23","<span class='v M35_23' data-id='M35_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.024","3MA","5","M35_24","<span class='v M35_24' data-id='M35_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.025","3MA","5","M35_25","<span class='v M35_25' data-id='M35_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.026","3MA","5","M35_26","<span class='v M35_26' data-id='M35_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>The sun's rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.027","3MA","5","M35_27","<span class='v M35_27' data-id='M35_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, enquired the object of this earnest preparation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.028","3MA","5","M35_28","<span class='v M35_28' data-id='M35_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.029","3MA","5","M35_29","<span class='v M35_29' data-id='M35_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.030","3MA","5","M35_30","<span class='v M35_30' data-id='M35_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.031","3MA","5","M35_31","<span class='v M35_31' data-id='M35_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.032","3MA","5","M35_32","<span class='v M35_32' data-id='M35_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.033","3MA","5","M35_33","<span class='v M35_33' data-id='M35_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.034","3MA","5","M35_34","<span class='v M35_34' data-id='M35_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.035","3MA","5","M35_35","<span class='v M35_35' data-id='M35_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.036","3MA","5","M35_36","<span class='v M35_36' data-id='M35_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.037","3MA","5","M35_37","<span class='v M35_37' data-id='M35_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.038","3MA","5","M35_38","<span class='v M35_38' data-id='M35_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Once more, arm the elephants against the morrow for the extermination of the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.039","3MA","5","M35_39","<span class='v M35_39' data-id='M35_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.040","3MA","5","M35_40","<span class='v M35_40' data-id='M35_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>O king, how long do you make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.041","3MA","5","M35_41","<span class='v M35_41' data-id='M35_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.042","3MA","5","M35_42","<span class='v M35_42' data-id='M35_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.043","3MA","5","M35_43","<span class='v M35_43' data-id='M35_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.044","3MA","5","M35_44","<span class='v M35_44' data-id='M35_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.045","3MA","5","M35_45","<span class='v M35_45' data-id='M35_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.046","3MA","5","M35_46","<span class='v M35_46' data-id='M35_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.047","3MA","5","M35_47","<span class='v M35_47' data-id='M35_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>The king's heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned <span class='add'>Jews</span>. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.048","3MA","5","M35_48","<span class='v M35_48' data-id='M35_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>But the <span class='add'>Jews</span>, when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.049","3MA","5","M35_49","<span class='v M35_49' data-id='M35_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another's necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.050","3MA","5","M35_50","<span class='v M35_50' data-id='M35_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the succour before granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.005.051","3MA","5","M35_51","<span class='v M35_51' data-id='M35_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>sent up an exceeding great cry entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.001","3MA","6","M36_1","<div class='c'>6</div><div class='p'><span class='v M36_1' data-id='M36_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.002","3MA","6","M36_2","<span class='v M36_2' data-id='M36_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.003","3MA","6","M36_3","<span class='v M36_3' data-id='M36_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.004","3MA","6","M36_4","<span class='v M36_4' data-id='M36_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>You destroyed Pharaoh, with his hosts of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless hardihood and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you did overwhelm him with his proud army. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.005","3MA","6","M36_5","<span class='v M36_5' data-id='M36_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, glorying in his countless hosts, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against your holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, did demolish him and did show forth your might to many nations. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.006","3MA","6","M36_6","<span class='v M36_6' data-id='M36_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you did send a dewy coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.007","3MA","6","M36_7","<span class='v M36_7' data-id='M36_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, did bring him back against unhurt to light. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.008","3MA","6","M36_8","<span class='v M36_8' data-id='M36_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, you did look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.009","3MA","6","M36_9","<span class='v M36_9' data-id='M36_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And now, you who hate insolence; you who do abound in mercy; you who are the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.010","3MA","6","M36_10","<span class='v M36_10' data-id='M36_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.011","3MA","6","M36_11","<span class='v M36_11' data-id='M36_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.012","3MA","6","M36_12","<span class='v M36_12' data-id='M36_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>You, who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.013","3MA","6","M36_13","<span class='v M36_13' data-id='M36_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.014","3MA","6","M36_14","<span class='v M36_14' data-id='M36_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.015","3MA","6","M36_15","<span class='v M36_15' data-id='M36_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us; but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do you fulfil this saying, O Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.016","3MA","6","M36_16","<span class='v M36_16' data-id='M36_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.017","3MA","6","M36_17","<span class='v M36_17' data-id='M36_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.018","3MA","6","M36_18","<span class='v M36_18' data-id='M36_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.019","3MA","6","M36_19","<span class='v M36_19' data-id='M36_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies' host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.020","3MA","6","M36_20","<span class='v M36_20' data-id='M36_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.021","3MA","6","M36_21","<span class='v M36_21' data-id='M36_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.022","3MA","6","M36_22","<span class='v M36_22' data-id='M36_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>The king's wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.023","3MA","6","M36_23","<span class='v M36_23' data-id='M36_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.024","3MA","6","M36_24","<span class='v M36_24' data-id='M36_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>You° have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor you° have laboured to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.025","3MA","6","M36_25","<span class='v M36_25' data-id='M36_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.026","3MA","6","M36_26","<span class='v M36_26' data-id='M36_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will towards us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.027","3MA","6","M36_27","<span class='v M36_27' data-id='M36_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.028","3MA","6","M36_28","<span class='v M36_28' data-id='M36_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors' times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.029","3MA","6","M36_29","<span class='v M36_29' data-id='M36_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.030","3MA","6","M36_30","<span class='v M36_30' data-id='M36_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days' quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.031","3MA","6","M36_31","<span class='v M36_31' data-id='M36_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.032","3MA","6","M36_32","<span class='v M36_32' data-id='M36_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.033","3MA","6","M36_33","<span class='v M36_33' data-id='M36_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.034","3MA","6","M36_34","<span class='v M36_34' data-id='M36_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.035","3MA","6","M36_35","<span class='v M36_35' data-id='M36_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgivings, and psalms. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.036","3MA","6","M36_36","<span class='v M36_36' data-id='M36_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.037","3MA","6","M36_37","<span class='v M36_37' data-id='M36_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>They requested the king to send them back to their homes. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.038","3MA","6","M36_38","<span class='v M36_38' data-id='M36_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.039","3MA","6","M36_39","<span class='v M36_39' data-id='M36_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.040","3MA","6","M36_40","<span class='v M36_40' data-id='M36_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>They feasted upon the king's provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.006.041","3MA","6","M36_41","<span class='v M36_41' data-id='M36_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>The king commended them, and wrote the subjoined letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.001","3MA","7","M37_1","<div class='c'>7</div><div class='p'><span class='v M37_1' data-id='M37_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.002","3MA","7","M37_2","<span class='v M37_2' data-id='M37_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.003","3MA","7","M37_3","<span class='v M37_3' data-id='M37_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.004","3MA","7","M37_4","<span class='v M37_4' data-id='M37_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.005","3MA","7","M37_5","<span class='v M37_5' data-id='M37_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, nay, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavoured to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.006","3MA","7","M37_6","<span class='v M37_6' data-id='M37_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.007","3MA","7","M37_7","<span class='v M37_7' data-id='M37_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity towards us and towards our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.008","3MA","7","M37_8","<span class='v M37_8' data-id='M37_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.009","3MA","7","M37_9","<span class='v M37_9' data-id='M37_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>For know you°, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare you° well. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.010","3MA","7","M37_10","<span class='v M37_10' data-id='M37_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.011","3MA","7","M37_11","<span class='v M37_11' data-id='M37_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>They alleged that men who had for their bellies' sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.012","3MA","7","M37_12","<span class='v M37_12' data-id='M37_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king's dominions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.013","3MA","7","M37_13","<span class='v M37_13' data-id='M37_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.014","3MA","7","M37_14","<span class='v M37_14' data-id='M37_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.015","3MA","7","M37_15","<span class='v M37_15' data-id='M37_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.016","3MA","7","M37_16","<span class='v M37_16' data-id='M37_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>They themselves having held fast their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.017","3MA","7","M37_17","<span class='v M37_17' data-id='M37_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.018","3MA","7","M37_18","<span class='v M37_18' data-id='M37_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.019","3MA","7","M37_19","<span class='v M37_19' data-id='M37_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.020","3MA","7","M37_20","<span class='v M37_20' data-id='M37_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king's command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.021","3MA","7","M37_21","<span class='v M37_21' data-id='M37_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>They had more weight than before among their enemies; and were honored and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.022","3MA","7","M37_22","<span class='v M37_22' data-id='M37_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God wrought with perfectness wonders for their salvation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("057.007.023","3MA","7","M37_23","<span class='v M37_23' data-id='M37_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.001","4MA","1","M41_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v M41_1' data-id='M41_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.002","4MA","1","M41_2","<span class='v M41_2' data-id='M41_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>For reason is necessary to every one as a step to science: and more especially does it embrace the praise of prudence, the highest virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.003","4MA","1","M41_3","<span class='v M41_3' data-id='M41_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.004","4MA","1","M41_4","<span class='v M41_4' data-id='M41_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>it surely also and manifestly has the rule over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice; and of those which are hindrances to manliness, as wrath, and pain, and fear. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.005","4MA","1","M41_5","<span class='v M41_5' data-id='M41_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>How, then, is it, perhaps some may say, that reasoning, if it rule the affections, is not also master of forgetfulness and ignorance? They attempt a ridiculous argument. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.006","4MA","1","M41_6","<span class='v M41_6' data-id='M41_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.007","4MA","1","M41_7","<span class='v M41_7' data-id='M41_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>I might prove to you, from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.008","4MA","1","M41_8","<span class='v M41_8' data-id='M41_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven brethren, and their mother, who suffered death in defence of virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.009","4MA","1","M41_9","<span class='v M41_9' data-id='M41_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>For all these, contemning pains even to death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.010","4MA","1","M41_10","<span class='v M41_10' data-id='M41_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honors, I may count them happy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.011","4MA","1","M41_11","<span class='v M41_11' data-id='M41_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.012","4MA","1","M41_12","<span class='v M41_12' data-id='M41_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But we may now at once enter upon the question, having commenced, as is our wont, with laying down the doctrine, and so proceed to the account of these persons, giving glory to the all wise God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.013","4MA","1","M41_13","<span class='v M41_13' data-id='M41_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>The question, therefore, is, whether reasoning be absolute master of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.014","4MA","1","M41_14","<span class='v M41_14' data-id='M41_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Let us determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.015","4MA","1","M41_15","<span class='v M41_15' data-id='M41_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.016","4MA","1","M41_16","<span class='v M41_16' data-id='M41_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.017","4MA","1","M41_17","<span class='v M41_17' data-id='M41_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.018","4MA","1","M41_18","<span class='v M41_18' data-id='M41_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.019","4MA","1","M41_19","<span class='v M41_19' data-id='M41_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.020","4MA","1","M41_20","<span class='v M41_20' data-id='M41_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.021","4MA","1","M41_21","<span class='v M41_21' data-id='M41_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.022","4MA","1","M41_22","<span class='v M41_22' data-id='M41_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.023","4MA","1","M41_23","<span class='v M41_23' data-id='M41_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>And before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.024","4MA","1","M41_24","<span class='v M41_24' data-id='M41_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.025","4MA","1","M41_25","<span class='v M41_25' data-id='M41_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.026","4MA","1","M41_26","<span class='v M41_26' data-id='M41_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.027","4MA","1","M41_27","<span class='v M41_27' data-id='M41_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.028","4MA","1","M41_28","<span class='v M41_28' data-id='M41_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.029","4MA","1","M41_29","<span class='v M41_29' data-id='M41_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.030","4MA","1","M41_30","<span class='v M41_30' data-id='M41_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.031","4MA","1","M41_31","<span class='v M41_31' data-id='M41_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.032","4MA","1","M41_32","<span class='v M41_32' data-id='M41_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.033","4MA","1","M41_33","<span class='v M41_33' data-id='M41_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.034","4MA","1","M41_34","<span class='v M41_34' data-id='M41_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water-animals and birds, and four-footed beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.001.035","4MA","1","M41_35","<span class='v M41_35' data-id='M41_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.001","4MA","2","M42_1","<div class='c'>2</div><div class='p'><span class='v M42_1' data-id='M42_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.002","4MA","2","M42_2","<span class='v M42_2' data-id='M42_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.003","4MA","2","M42_3","<span class='v M42_3' data-id='M42_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.004","4MA","2","M42_4","<span class='v M42_4' data-id='M42_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.005","4MA","2","M42_5","<span class='v M42_5' data-id='M42_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.006","4MA","2","M42_6","<span class='v M42_6' data-id='M42_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.007","4MA","2","M42_7","<span class='v M42_7' data-id='M42_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.008","4MA","2","M42_8","<span class='v M42_8' data-id='M42_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, straightway puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming sabbath. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.009","4MA","2","M42_9","<span class='v M42_9' data-id='M42_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.010","4MA","2","M42_10","<span class='v M42_10' data-id='M42_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.011","4MA","2","M42_11","<span class='v M42_11' data-id='M42_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.012","4MA","2","M42_12","<span class='v M42_12' data-id='M42_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.013","4MA","2","M42_13","<span class='v M42_13' data-id='M42_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.014","4MA","2","M42_14","<span class='v M42_14' data-id='M42_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.015","4MA","2","M42_15","<span class='v M42_15' data-id='M42_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.016","4MA","2","M42_16","<span class='v M42_16' data-id='M42_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.017","4MA","2","M42_17","<span class='v M42_17' data-id='M42_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.018","4MA","2","M42_18","<span class='v M42_18' data-id='M42_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.019","4MA","2","M42_19","<span class='v M42_19' data-id='M42_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.020","4MA","2","M42_20","<span class='v M42_20' data-id='M42_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For if reasoning did not possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.021","4MA","2","M42_21","<span class='v M42_21' data-id='M42_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.022","4MA","2","M42_22","<span class='v M42_22' data-id='M42_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.023","4MA","2","M42_23","<span class='v M42_23' data-id='M42_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.002.024","4MA","2","M42_24","<span class='v M42_24' data-id='M42_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.001","4MA","3","M43_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v M43_1' data-id='M43_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.002","4MA","3","M43_2","<span class='v M43_2' data-id='M43_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.003","4MA","3","M43_3","<span class='v M43_3' data-id='M43_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.004","4MA","3","M43_4","<span class='v M43_4' data-id='M43_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.005","4MA","3","M43_5","<span class='v M43_5' data-id='M43_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.006","4MA","3","M43_6","<span class='v M43_6' data-id='M43_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.007","4MA","3","M43_7","<span class='v M43_7' data-id='M43_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.008","4MA","3","M43_8","<span class='v M43_8' data-id='M43_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire host of our ancestors was encamped. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.009","4MA","3","M43_9","<span class='v M43_9' data-id='M43_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Now all the rest of them were at supper; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.010","4MA","3","M43_10","<span class='v M43_10' data-id='M43_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.011","4MA","3","M43_11","<span class='v M43_11' data-id='M43_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy's camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.012","4MA","3","M43_12","<span class='v M43_12' data-id='M43_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Therefore his bodyguards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, reverencing the desire of the king, put on their panoplies, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.013","4MA","3","M43_13","<span class='v M43_13' data-id='M43_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>and unperceived by the guardians of the gate, they went throughout the whole camp of the enemy in quest. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.014","4MA","3","M43_14","<span class='v M43_14' data-id='M43_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>And having boldly discovered the fountain, they filled out of it the draught for the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.015","4MA","3","M43_15","<span class='v M43_15' data-id='M43_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood, would be terribly dangerous to his soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.016","4MA","3","M43_16","<span class='v M43_16' data-id='M43_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Therefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.017","4MA","3","M43_17","<span class='v M43_17' data-id='M43_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.018","4MA","3","M43_18","<span class='v M43_18' data-id='M43_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>and to wrestle down the pains of the body, however excessive; and, through the excellency of reasoning, to abominate all the assaults of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.019","4MA","3","M43_19","<span class='v M43_19' data-id='M43_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.020","4MA","3","M43_20","<span class='v M43_20' data-id='M43_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law, and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.003.021","4MA","3","M43_21","<span class='v M43_21' data-id='M43_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>then certain persons, bringing in new things contrary to the general unanimity, in various ways fell into calamities. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.001","4MA","4","M44_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v M44_1' data-id='M44_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honorable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.002","4MA","4","M44_2","<span class='v M44_2' data-id='M44_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phoenicia, and Cilicia, he said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.003","4MA","4","M44_3","<span class='v M44_3' data-id='M44_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Having good will to the king's affairs, I am come to inform you that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to king Seleucus. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.004","4MA","4","M44_4","<span class='v M44_4' data-id='M44_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Apollonius, acquainting himself with the particulars of this, praised Simon for his care of the king's interests, and going up to Seleucus informed him of the treasure; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.005","4MA","4","M44_5","<span class='v M44_5' data-id='M44_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.006","4MA","4","M44_6","<span class='v M44_6' data-id='M44_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.007","4MA","4","M44_7","<span class='v M44_7' data-id='M44_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.008","4MA","4","M44_8","<span class='v M44_8' data-id='M44_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>But Appolonius went away with threats into the temple. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.009","4MA","4","M44_9","<span class='v M44_9' data-id='M44_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.010","4MA","4","M44_10","<span class='v M44_10' data-id='M44_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>and Appolonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure, —there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armor, filling them with much fear and trembling. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.011","4MA","4","M44_11","<span class='v M44_11' data-id='M44_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly host. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.012","4MA","4","M44_12","<span class='v M44_12' data-id='M44_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.013","4MA","4","M44_13","<span class='v M44_13' data-id='M44_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that king Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.014","4MA","4","M44_14","<span class='v M44_14' data-id='M44_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.015","4MA","4","M44_15","<span class='v M44_15' data-id='M44_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of haughty pride and terrible. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.016","4MA","4","M44_16","<span class='v M44_16' data-id='M44_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.017","4MA","4","M44_17","<span class='v M44_17' data-id='M44_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.018","4MA","4","M44_18","<span class='v M44_18' data-id='M44_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.019","4MA","4","M44_19","<span class='v M44_19' data-id='M44_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>And he both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.020","4MA","4","M44_20","<span class='v M44_20' data-id='M44_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, <span class='add'>but neglected</span> the guardianship of the temple. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.021","4MA","4","M44_21","<span class='v M44_21' data-id='M44_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.022","4MA","4","M44_22","<span class='v M44_22' data-id='M44_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>For being at war with Ptolemy in Egypt, he heard that on a report of his death being spread abroad, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had exceedingly rejoiced, and he quickly marched against them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.023","4MA","4","M44_23","<span class='v M44_23' data-id='M44_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>And having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the laws of his country he should die. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.024","4MA","4","M44_24","<span class='v M44_24' data-id='M44_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.025","4MA","4","M44_25","<span class='v M44_25' data-id='M44_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.004.026","4MA","4","M44_26","<span class='v M44_26' data-id='M44_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures every one of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to abjure the Jewish religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.001","4MA","5","M45_1","<div class='c'>5</div><div class='p'><span class='v M45_1' data-id='M45_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.002","4MA","5","M45_2","<span class='v M45_2' data-id='M45_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine's flesh, and things offered to idols. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.003","4MA","5","M45_3","<span class='v M45_3' data-id='M45_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>And should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel, and so killed. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.004","4MA","5","M45_4","<span class='v M45_4' data-id='M45_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king's followers, was brought near to him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.005","4MA","5","M45_5","<span class='v M45_5' data-id='M45_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>And Antiochus seeing him, said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.006","4MA","5","M45_6","<span class='v M45_6' data-id='M45_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine's flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.007","4MA","5","M45_7","<span class='v M45_7' data-id='M45_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>For therefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.008","4MA","5","M45_8","<span class='v M45_8' data-id='M45_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.009","4MA","5","M45_9","<span class='v M45_9' data-id='M45_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.010","4MA","5","M45_10","<span class='v M45_10' data-id='M45_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>And you will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.011","4MA","5","M45_11","<span class='v M45_11' data-id='M45_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.012","4MA","5","M45_12","<span class='v M45_12' data-id='M45_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.013","4MA","5","M45_13","<span class='v M45_13' data-id='M45_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.014","4MA","5","M45_14","<span class='v M45_14' data-id='M45_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.015","4MA","5","M45_15","<span class='v M45_15' data-id='M45_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>And having received power to speak, he began thus to deliver himself: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.016","4MA","5","M45_16","<span class='v M45_16' data-id='M45_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.017","4MA","5","M45_17","<span class='v M45_17' data-id='M45_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>therefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.018","4MA","5","M45_18","<span class='v M45_18' data-id='M45_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.019","4MA","5","M45_19","<span class='v M45_19' data-id='M45_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.020","4MA","5","M45_20","<span class='v M45_20' data-id='M45_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.021","4MA","5","M45_21","<span class='v M45_21' data-id='M45_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>for in either case the law is equally slighted. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.022","4MA","5","M45_22","<span class='v M45_22' data-id='M45_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.023","4MA","5","M45_23","<span class='v M45_23' data-id='M45_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.024","4MA","5","M45_24","<span class='v M45_24' data-id='M45_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>And it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealings we render what is due; and it teaches us piety, so that we worship the one only God becomingly. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.025","4MA","5","M45_25","<span class='v M45_25' data-id='M45_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Therefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathizes with our nature. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.026","4MA","5","M45_26","<span class='v M45_26' data-id='M45_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.027","4MA","5","M45_27","<span class='v M45_27' data-id='M45_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.028","4MA","5","M45_28","<span class='v M45_28' data-id='M45_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>but you shall not have this cause of laughter against me; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.029","4MA","5","M45_29","<span class='v M45_29' data-id='M45_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.030","4MA","5","M45_30","<span class='v M45_30' data-id='M45_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.031","4MA","5","M45_31","<span class='v M45_31' data-id='M45_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defence of my religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.032","4MA","5","M45_32","<span class='v M45_32' data-id='M45_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.033","4MA","5","M45_33","<span class='v M45_33' data-id='M45_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.034","4MA","5","M45_34","<span class='v M45_34' data-id='M45_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>I will not belie you, O law, my instructor! or forsake you, O beloved self-control! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.035","4MA","5","M45_35","<span class='v M45_35' data-id='M45_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>I will not put you to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny you, O honored priesthood, and science of the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.036","4MA","5","M45_36","<span class='v M45_36' data-id='M45_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.037","4MA","5","M45_37","<span class='v M45_37' data-id='M45_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.005.038","4MA","5","M45_38","<span class='v M45_38' data-id='M45_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>For over the ungodly you shall tyrannize; but you shall not lord it over my thoughts about religion, either by your arguments, or through deeds. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.001","4MA","6","M46_1","<div class='c'>6</div><div class='p'><span class='v M46_1' data-id='M46_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.002","4MA","6","M46_2","<span class='v M46_2' data-id='M46_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.003","4MA","6","M46_3","<span class='v M46_3' data-id='M46_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.004","4MA","6","M46_4","<span class='v M46_4' data-id='M46_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.005","4MA","6","M46_5","<span class='v M46_5' data-id='M46_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.006","4MA","6","M46_6","<span class='v M46_6' data-id='M46_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man's flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.007","4MA","6","M46_7","<span class='v M46_7' data-id='M46_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.008","4MA","6","M46_8","<span class='v M46_8' data-id='M46_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.009","4MA","6","M46_9","<span class='v M46_9' data-id='M46_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.010","4MA","6","M46_10","<span class='v M46_10' data-id='M46_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.011","4MA","6","M46_11","<span class='v M46_11' data-id='M46_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.012","4MA","6","M46_12","<span class='v M46_12' data-id='M46_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Therefore, partly in pity for his old age, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.013","4MA","6","M46_13","<span class='v M46_13' data-id='M46_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.014","4MA","6","M46_14","<span class='v M46_14' data-id='M46_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.015","4MA","6","M46_15","<span class='v M46_15' data-id='M46_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine's flesh. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.016","4MA","6","M46_16","<span class='v M46_16' data-id='M46_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.017","4MA","6","M46_17","<span class='v M46_17' data-id='M46_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.018","4MA","6","M46_18","<span class='v M46_18' data-id='M46_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.019","4MA","6","M46_19","<span class='v M46_19' data-id='M46_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.020","4MA","6","M46_20","<span class='v M46_20' data-id='M46_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.021","4MA","6","M46_21","<span class='v M46_21' data-id='M46_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.022","4MA","6","M46_22","<span class='v M46_22' data-id='M46_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Therefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.023","4MA","6","M46_23","<span class='v M46_23' data-id='M46_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>You° spearbearers of the tyrant, why do you° linger? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.024","4MA","6","M46_24","<span class='v M46_24' data-id='M46_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.025","4MA","6","M46_25","<span class='v M46_25' data-id='M46_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.026","4MA","6","M46_26","<span class='v M46_26' data-id='M46_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>And he being at length burnt down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.027","4MA","6","M46_27","<span class='v M46_27' data-id='M46_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.028","4MA","6","M46_28","<span class='v M46_28' data-id='M46_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.029","4MA","6","M46_29","<span class='v M46_29' data-id='M46_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.030","4MA","6","M46_30","<span class='v M46_30' data-id='M46_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.031","4MA","6","M46_31","<span class='v M46_31' data-id='M46_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.032","4MA","6","M46_32","<span class='v M46_32' data-id='M46_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.033","4MA","6","M46_33","<span class='v M46_33' data-id='M46_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.034","4MA","6","M46_34","<span class='v M46_34' data-id='M46_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.006.035","4MA","6","M46_35","<span class='v M46_35' data-id='M46_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.001","4MA","7","M47_1","<div class='c'>7</div><div class='p'><span class='v M47_1' data-id='M47_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.002","4MA","7","M47_2","<span class='v M47_2' data-id='M47_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.003","4MA","7","M47_3","<span class='v M47_3' data-id='M47_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.004","4MA","7","M47_4","<span class='v M47_4' data-id='M47_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.005","4MA","7","M47_5","<span class='v M47_5' data-id='M47_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.006","4MA","7","M47_6","<span class='v M47_6' data-id='M47_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>O priest worthy of the priesthood! you did not pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.007","4MA","7","M47_7","<span class='v M47_7' data-id='M47_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.008","4MA","7","M47_8","<span class='v M47_8' data-id='M47_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.009","4MA","7","M47_9","<span class='v M47_9' data-id='M47_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.010","4MA","7","M47_10","<span class='v M47_10' data-id='M47_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.011","4MA","7","M47_11","<span class='v M47_11' data-id='M47_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.012","4MA","7","M47_12","<span class='v M47_12' data-id='M47_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.013","4MA","7","M47_13","<span class='v M47_13' data-id='M47_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labors of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.014","4MA","7","M47_14","<span class='v M47_14' data-id='M47_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.015","4MA","7","M47_15","<span class='v M47_15' data-id='M47_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.016","4MA","7","M47_16","<span class='v M47_16' data-id='M47_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.017","4MA","7","M47_17","<span class='v M47_17' data-id='M47_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.018","4MA","7","M47_18","<span class='v M47_18' data-id='M47_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.019","4MA","7","M47_19","<span class='v M47_19' data-id='M47_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.020","4MA","7","M47_20","<span class='v M47_20' data-id='M47_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.021","4MA","7","M47_21","<span class='v M47_21' data-id='M47_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.022","4MA","7","M47_22","<span class='v M47_22' data-id='M47_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.023","4MA","7","M47_23","<span class='v M47_23' data-id='M47_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.024","4MA","7","M47_24","<span class='v M47_24' data-id='M47_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Whence it is, that even boys, imbued with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.007.025","4MA","7","M47_25","<span class='v M47_25' data-id='M47_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,- </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.001","4MA","8","M48_1","<div class='c'>8</div><div class='p'><span class='v M48_1' data-id='M48_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.002","4MA","8","M48_2","<span class='v M48_2' data-id='M48_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and well-born, and altogether comely. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.003","4MA","8","M48_3","<span class='v M48_3' data-id='M48_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Whom, when the tyrant [*]saw, encircling their mother as in a dance, he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and ingenuous mien, smiled upon them, and calling them near, said: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.004","4MA","8","M48_4","<span class='v M48_4' data-id='M48_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>O youths, with favourable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.005","4MA","8","M48_5","<span class='v M48_5' data-id='M48_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.006","4MA","8","M48_6","<span class='v M48_6' data-id='M48_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Put confidence in me, then, and you shall receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national ordinance, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.007","4MA","8","M48_7","<span class='v M48_7' data-id='M48_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth's delights. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.008","4MA","8","M48_8","<span class='v M48_8' data-id='M48_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.009","4MA","8","M48_9","<span class='v M48_9' data-id='M48_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.010","4MA","8","M48_10","<span class='v M48_10' data-id='M48_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.011","4MA","8","M48_11","<span class='v M48_11' data-id='M48_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.012","4MA","8","M48_12","<span class='v M48_12' data-id='M48_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapults, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.013","4MA","8","M48_13","<span class='v M48_13' data-id='M48_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you° worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.014","4MA","8","M48_14","<span class='v M48_14' data-id='M48_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.015","4MA","8","M48_15","<span class='v M48_15' data-id='M48_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Now let us consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly among them, what reasonings would they have employed but these? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.016","4MA","8","M48_16","<span class='v M48_16' data-id='M48_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.017","4MA","8","M48_17","<span class='v M48_17' data-id='M48_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.018","4MA","8","M48_18","<span class='v M48_18' data-id='M48_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.019","4MA","8","M48_19","<span class='v M48_19' data-id='M48_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.020","4MA","8","M48_20","<span class='v M48_20' data-id='M48_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>And let us bear in mind that we shall be dying as rebels. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.021","4MA","8","M48_21","<span class='v M48_21' data-id='M48_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.022","4MA","8","M48_22","<span class='v M48_22' data-id='M48_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.023","4MA","8","M48_23","<span class='v M48_23' data-id='M48_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.024","4MA","8","M48_24","<span class='v M48_24' data-id='M48_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.025","4MA","8","M48_25","<span class='v M48_25' data-id='M48_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.026","4MA","8","M48_26","<span class='v M48_26' data-id='M48_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.008.027","4MA","8","M48_27","<span class='v M48_27' data-id='M48_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains. So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.001","4MA","9","M49_1","<div class='c'>9</div><div class='p'><span class='v M49_1' data-id='M49_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.002","4MA","9","M49_2","<span class='v M49_2' data-id='M49_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.003","4MA","9","M49_3","<span class='v M49_3' data-id='M49_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>O tyrant, counsellor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.004","4MA","9","M49_4","<span class='v M49_4' data-id='M49_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>For we account escape to be worse than death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.005","4MA","9","M49_5","<span class='v M49_5' data-id='M49_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learned nothing by the death of Eleazar. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.006","4MA","9","M49_6","<span class='v M49_6' data-id='M49_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.007","4MA","9","M49_7","<span class='v M49_7' data-id='M49_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if you put us to death for our religion, think not that you harm us by torturing us. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.008","4MA","9","M49_8","<span class='v M49_8' data-id='M49_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.009","4MA","9","M49_9","<span class='v M49_9' data-id='M49_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.010","4MA","9","M49_10","<span class='v M49_10' data-id='M49_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.011","4MA","9","M49_11","<span class='v M49_11' data-id='M49_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the oldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.012","4MA","9","M49_12","<span class='v M49_12' data-id='M49_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And when they had laboured hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.013","4MA","9","M49_13","<span class='v M49_13' data-id='M49_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.014","4MA","9","M49_14","<span class='v M49_14' data-id='M49_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.015","4MA","9","M49_15","<span class='v M49_15' data-id='M49_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom you thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.016","4MA","9","M49_16","<span class='v M49_16' data-id='M49_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,— </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.017","4MA","9","M49_17","<span class='v M49_17' data-id='M49_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.018","4MA","9","M49_18","<span class='v M49_18' data-id='M49_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.019","4MA","9","M49_19","<span class='v M49_19' data-id='M49_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.020","4MA","9","M49_20","<span class='v M49_20' data-id='M49_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.021","4MA","9","M49_21","<span class='v M49_21' data-id='M49_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.022","4MA","9","M49_22","<span class='v M49_22' data-id='M49_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.023","4MA","9","M49_23","<span class='v M49_23' data-id='M49_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Imitate me, O brethren, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.024","4MA","9","M49_24","<span class='v M49_24' data-id='M49_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.025","4MA","9","M49_25","<span class='v M49_25' data-id='M49_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.026","4MA","9","M49_26","<span class='v M49_26' data-id='M49_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.027","4MA","9","M49_27","<span class='v M49_27' data-id='M49_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.028","4MA","9","M49_28","<span class='v M49_28' data-id='M49_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.029","4MA","9","M49_29","<span class='v M49_29' data-id='M49_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.030","4MA","9","M49_30","<span class='v M49_30' data-id='M49_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>Thinkest you not, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.031","4MA","9","M49_31","<span class='v M49_31' data-id='M49_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.009.032","4MA","9","M49_32","<span class='v M49_32' data-id='M49_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>But you are tortured with threatenings for impiety; and you shall not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.001","4MA","10","M410_1","<div class='c'>10</div><div class='p'><span class='v M410_1' data-id='M410_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.002","4MA","10","M410_2","<span class='v M410_2' data-id='M410_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>But he cried out and said, Know you° not, that the father of those who are dead, became the father of me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.003","4MA","10","M410_3","<span class='v M410_3' data-id='M410_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>I abjure not the noble relationship of my brethren. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.004","4MA","10","M410_4","<span class='v M410_4' data-id='M410_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance you° have, apply it to my body, for you° are not able to touch, even if you° wish it, my soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.005","4MA","10","M410_5","<span class='v M410_5' data-id='M410_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>But they, highly incensed at his boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.006","4MA","10","M410_6","<span class='v M410_6' data-id='M410_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>And they dragged round his fingers, and his arms, and his legs, and his ankles. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.007","4MA","10","M410_7","<span class='v M410_7' data-id='M410_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers, flayed him, and then haled him to the wheel; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.008","4MA","10","M410_8","<span class='v M410_8' data-id='M410_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.009","4MA","10","M410_9","<span class='v M410_9' data-id='M410_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And when about to die, he said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.010","4MA","10","M410_10","<span class='v M410_10' data-id='M410_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.011","4MA","10","M410_11","<span class='v M410_11' data-id='M410_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>But you, for your impiety and blood shedding, shall endure indissoluble torments. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.012","4MA","10","M410_12","<span class='v M410_12' data-id='M410_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And thus having died worthily of his brethren, they dragged forward the fourth, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.013","4MA","10","M410_13","<span class='v M410_13' data-id='M410_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Do not you share the madness of your brethren: but give regard to the king, and save yourself. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.014","4MA","10","M410_14","<span class='v M410_14' data-id='M410_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.015","4MA","10","M410_15","<span class='v M410_15' data-id='M410_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.016","4MA","10","M410_16","<span class='v M410_16' data-id='M410_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.017","4MA","10","M410_17","<span class='v M410_17' data-id='M410_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.018","4MA","10","M410_18","<span class='v M410_18' data-id='M410_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But he said, Even if you take away the organ of speech, yet God hears the silent. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.019","4MA","10","M410_19","<span class='v M410_19' data-id='M410_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Behold, my tongue is extended, cut it off; for not for that halt you extirpate our reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.020","4MA","10","M410_20","<span class='v M410_20' data-id='M410_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Gladly do we lose our limbs in behalf of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.010.021","4MA","10","M410_21","<span class='v M410_21' data-id='M410_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>But God shall speedly find you, since you cut off the tongue, the instrument of divine melody. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.001","4MA","11","M411_1","<div class='c'>11</div><div class='p'><span class='v M411_1' data-id='M411_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.002","4MA","11","M411_2","<span class='v M411_2' data-id='M411_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.003","4MA","11","M411_3","<span class='v M411_3' data-id='M411_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.004","4MA","11","M411_4","<span class='v M411_4' data-id='M411_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.005","4MA","11","M411_5","<span class='v M411_5' data-id='M411_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.006","4MA","11","M411_6","<span class='v M411_6' data-id='M411_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>But this is worthy of honors, not torments; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.007","4MA","11","M411_7","<span class='v M411_7' data-id='M411_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.008","4MA","11","M411_8","<span class='v M411_8' data-id='M411_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.009","4MA","11","M411_9","<span class='v M411_9' data-id='M411_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.010","4MA","11","M411_10","<span class='v M411_10' data-id='M411_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.011","4MA","11","M411_11","<span class='v M411_11' data-id='M411_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.012","4MA","11","M411_12","<span class='v M411_12' data-id='M411_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.013","4MA","11","M411_13","<span class='v M411_13' data-id='M411_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.014","4MA","11","M411_14","<span class='v M411_14' data-id='M411_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.015","4MA","11","M411_15","<span class='v M411_15' data-id='M411_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.016","4MA","11","M411_16","<span class='v M411_16' data-id='M411_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>So that if you° think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean;—torment! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.017","4MA","11","M411_17","<span class='v M411_17' data-id='M411_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.018","4MA","11","M411_18","<span class='v M411_18' data-id='M411_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.019","4MA","11","M411_19","<span class='v M411_19' data-id='M411_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.020","4MA","11","M411_20","<span class='v M411_20' data-id='M411_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brethren have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.021","4MA","11","M411_21","<span class='v M411_21' data-id='M411_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.022","4MA","11","M411_22","<span class='v M411_22' data-id='M411_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my brethren. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.023","4MA","11","M411_23","<span class='v M411_23' data-id='M411_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.024","4MA","11","M411_24","<span class='v M411_24' data-id='M411_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.025","4MA","11","M411_25","<span class='v M411_25' data-id='M411_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.026","4MA","11","M411_26","<span class='v M411_26' data-id='M411_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.011.027","4MA","11","M411_27","<span class='v M411_27' data-id='M411_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.001","4MA","12","M412_1","<div class='c'>12</div><div class='p'><span class='v M412_1' data-id='M412_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the caldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.002","4MA","12","M412_2","<span class='v M412_2' data-id='M412_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.003","4MA","12","M412_3","<span class='v M412_3' data-id='M412_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavoured to counsel him, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.004","4MA","12","M412_4","<span class='v M412_4' data-id='M412_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>You see the end of the madness of your brethren: for they have died in torture through disobedience; and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.005","4MA","12","M412_5","<span class='v M412_5' data-id='M412_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.006","4MA","12","M412_6","<span class='v M412_6' data-id='M412_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.007","4MA","12","M412_7","<span class='v M412_7' data-id='M412_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) says, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.008","4MA","12","M412_8","<span class='v M412_8' data-id='M412_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.009","4MA","12","M412_9","<span class='v M412_9' data-id='M412_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.010","4MA","12","M412_10","<span class='v M412_10' data-id='M412_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>And he, running up to the pans, said, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.011","4MA","12","M412_11","<span class='v M412_11' data-id='M412_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, were you not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to kill His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.012","4MA","12","M412_12","<span class='v M412_12' data-id='M412_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Therefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.013","4MA","12","M412_13","<span class='v M412_13' data-id='M412_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Were you not ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.014","4MA","12","M412_14","<span class='v M412_14' data-id='M412_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion towards God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.015","4MA","12","M412_15","<span class='v M412_15' data-id='M412_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>But you shall groan according to your deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.016","4MA","12","M412_16","<span class='v M412_16' data-id='M412_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Therefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.017","4MA","12","M412_17","<span class='v M412_17' data-id='M412_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>will not forsake my brethren. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.018","4MA","12","M412_18","<span class='v M412_18' data-id='M412_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.019","4MA","12","M412_19","<span class='v M412_19' data-id='M412_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>But you, both living and dead, he will punish. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.012.020","4MA","12","M412_20","<span class='v M412_20' data-id='M412_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.001","4MA","13","M413_1","<div class='c'>13</div><div class='p'><span class='v M413_1' data-id='M413_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>If then, the seven brethren despised troubles even to death, it is confessed on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.002","4MA","13","M413_2","<span class='v M413_2' data-id='M413_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>For just as if, had they as slaves to the passions, eaten of the unholy, we should have said that they had been conquered by the; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.003","4MA","13","M413_3","<span class='v M413_3' data-id='M413_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>now it is not so: but by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.004","4MA","13","M413_4","<span class='v M413_4' data-id='M413_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>And it is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection: for it gained the victory over both passions and troubles. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.005","4MA","13","M413_5","<span class='v M413_5' data-id='M413_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>How, then, can we avoid according to these men mastery of passion through right reasoning, since they drew not back from the pains of fire? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.006","4MA","13","M413_6","<span class='v M413_6' data-id='M413_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbors men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.007","4MA","13","M413_7","<span class='v M413_7' data-id='M413_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the intermperance of passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.008","4MA","13","M413_8","<span class='v M413_8' data-id='M413_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.009","4MA","13","M413_9","<span class='v M413_9' data-id='M413_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.010","4MA","13","M413_10","<span class='v M413_10' data-id='M413_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Let us not be cowards in the manifestation of piety. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.011","4MA","13","M413_11","<span class='v M413_11' data-id='M413_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And one said, Courage, brother; and another, Nobly endure. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.012","4MA","13","M413_12","<span class='v M413_12' data-id='M413_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And another, Remember of what stock you° are; and by the hand of our father Isaac endured to be slain for the sake of piety. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.013","4MA","13","M413_13","<span class='v M413_13' data-id='M413_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And one and all, looking on each other serene and confident, said, Let us sacrifice with all our heart our souls to God who gave them, and employ our bodies for the keeping of the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.014","4MA","13","M413_14","<span class='v M413_14' data-id='M413_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Let us not fear him who thinks he kills; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.015","4MA","13","M413_15","<span class='v M413_15' data-id='M413_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.016","4MA","13","M413_16","<span class='v M413_16' data-id='M413_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.017","4MA","13","M413_17","<span class='v M413_17' data-id='M413_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.018","4MA","13","M413_18","<span class='v M413_18' data-id='M413_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>And as each one of the brethren was haled away, the rest exclaimed, Disgrace us not, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.019","4MA","13","M413_19","<span class='v M413_19' data-id='M413_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother's womb. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.020","4MA","13","M413_20","<span class='v M413_20' data-id='M413_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.021","4MA","13","M413_21","<span class='v M413_21' data-id='M413_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same fountains, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.022","4MA","13","M413_22","<span class='v M413_22' data-id='M413_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.023","4MA","13","M413_23","<span class='v M413_23' data-id='M413_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.024","4MA","13","M413_24","<span class='v M413_24' data-id='M413_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.025","4MA","13","M413_25","<span class='v M413_25' data-id='M413_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For a like ardour for what is right and honorable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.026","4MA","13","M413_26","<span class='v M413_26' data-id='M413_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.013.027","4MA","13","M413_27","<span class='v M413_27' data-id='M413_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to behold their brethren, who were ill-used for their religion, tortured even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.001","4MA","14","M414_1","<div class='c'>14</div><div class='p'><span class='v M414_1' data-id='M414_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.002","4MA","14","M414_2","<span class='v M414_2' data-id='M414_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.003","4MA","14","M414_3","<span class='v M414_3' data-id='M414_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven brethren as concerning piety! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.004","4MA","14","M414_4","<span class='v M414_4' data-id='M414_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.005","4MA","14","M414_5","<span class='v M414_5' data-id='M414_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.006","4MA","14","M414_6","<span class='v M414_6' data-id='M414_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed to death for religion's sake, as through the immortal soul of religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.007","4MA","14","M414_7","<span class='v M414_7' data-id='M414_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>O holy seven of harmonious brethren! for as the seven days of creation, about religion, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.008","4MA","14","M414_8","<span class='v M414_8' data-id='M414_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.009","4MA","14","M414_9","<span class='v M414_9' data-id='M414_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only [*]saw, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.010","4MA","14","M414_10","<span class='v M414_10' data-id='M414_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.011","4MA","14","M414_11","<span class='v M414_11' data-id='M414_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman's mind despised more manifold pains. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.012","4MA","14","M414_12","<span class='v M414_12' data-id='M414_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.013","4MA","14","M414_13","<span class='v M414_13' data-id='M414_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.014","4MA","14","M414_14","<span class='v M414_14' data-id='M414_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.015","4MA","14","M414_15","<span class='v M414_15' data-id='M414_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses, defend their fledglings. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.016","4MA","14","M414_16","<span class='v M414_16' data-id='M414_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.017","4MA","14","M414_17","<span class='v M414_17' data-id='M414_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.018","4MA","14","M414_18","<span class='v M414_18' data-id='M414_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.019","4MA","14","M414_19","<span class='v M414_19' data-id='M414_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>The very bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.014.020","4MA","14","M414_20","<span class='v M414_20' data-id='M414_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>But sympathy with her children did not turn aside the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.001","4MA","15","M415_1","<div class='c'>15</div><div class='p'><span class='v M415_1' data-id='M415_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.002","4MA","15","M415_2","<span class='v M415_2' data-id='M415_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>The mother, when two things were set before here, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.003","4MA","15","M415_3","<span class='v M415_3' data-id='M415_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.004","4MA","15","M415_4","<span class='v M415_4' data-id='M415_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.005","4MA","15","M415_5","<span class='v M415_5' data-id='M415_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.006","4MA","15","M415_6","<span class='v M415_6' data-id='M415_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.007","4MA","15","M415_7","<span class='v M415_7' data-id='M415_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.008","4MA","15","M415_8","<span class='v M415_8' data-id='M415_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.009","4MA","15","M415_9","<span class='v M415_9' data-id='M415_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.010","4MA","15","M415_10","<span class='v M415_10' data-id='M415_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their mother that even to death they obeyed her by observing the law. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.011","4MA","15","M415_11","<span class='v M415_11' data-id='M415_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.012","4MA","15","M415_12","<span class='v M415_12' data-id='M415_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.013","4MA","15","M415_13","<span class='v M415_13' data-id='M415_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.014","4MA","15","M415_14","<span class='v M415_14' data-id='M415_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.015","4MA","15","M415_15","<span class='v M415_15' data-id='M415_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>She [*]saw her children's flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forwards down to their beards, like masks. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.016","4MA","15","M415_16","<span class='v M415_16' data-id='M415_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.017","4MA","15","M415_17","<span class='v M415_17' data-id='M415_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>O you only woman who have brought forth perfect holiness! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.018","4MA","15","M415_18","<span class='v M415_18' data-id='M415_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Your firstborn, expiring, turned you not; nor the second, looking miserable in his torments; nor the third, breathing out his soul. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.019","4MA","15","M415_19","<span class='v M415_19' data-id='M415_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Nor when you did behold the eyes of each of them looking sternly upon their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death, did you weep! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.020","4MA","15","M415_20","<span class='v M415_20' data-id='M415_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>When you did see children's flesh heaped upon children's flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, you lamented not. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.021","4MA","15","M415_21","<span class='v M415_21' data-id='M415_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.022","4MA","15","M415_22","<span class='v M415_22' data-id='M415_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.023","4MA","15","M415_23","<span class='v M415_23' data-id='M415_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.024","4MA","15","M415_24","<span class='v M415_24' data-id='M415_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off <span class='add'>her feelings</span> through faith in God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.025","4MA","15","M415_25","<span class='v M415_25' data-id='M415_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counselors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.026","4MA","15","M415_26","<span class='v M415_26' data-id='M415_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.027","4MA","15","M415_27","<span class='v M415_27' data-id='M415_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.028","4MA","15","M415_28","<span class='v M415_28' data-id='M415_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.029","4MA","15","M415_29","<span class='v M415_29' data-id='M415_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.030","4MA","15","M415_30","<span class='v M415_30' data-id='M415_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>O you nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.031","4MA","15","M415_31","<span class='v M415_31' data-id='M415_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.015.032","4MA","15","M415_32","<span class='v M415_32' data-id='M415_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of they children, did bear up nobly against the storms against religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.001","4MA","16","M416_1","<div class='c'>16</div><div class='p'><span class='v M416_1' data-id='M416_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children's torments even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.002","4MA","16","M416_2","<span class='v M416_2' data-id='M416_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.003","4MA","16","M416_3","<span class='v M416_3' data-id='M416_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she [*]saw her seven sons tortured. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.004","4MA","16","M416_4","<span class='v M416_4' data-id='M416_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.005","4MA","16","M416_5","<span class='v M416_5' data-id='M416_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their other, she would have lamented over them; and perhaps might have spoken thus: </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.006","4MA","16","M416_6","<span class='v M416_6' data-id='M416_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.007","4MA","16","M416_7","<span class='v M416_7' data-id='M416_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labor, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.008","4MA","16","M416_8","<span class='v M416_8' data-id='M416_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.009","4MA","16","M416_9","<span class='v M416_9' data-id='M416_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.010","4MA","16","M416_10","<span class='v M416_10' data-id='M416_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.011","4MA","16","M416_11","<span class='v M416_11' data-id='M416_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.012","4MA","16","M416_12","<span class='v M416_12' data-id='M416_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.013","4MA","16","M416_13","<span class='v M416_13' data-id='M416_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplication exhorted them to death in behalf of religion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.014","4MA","16","M416_14","<span class='v M416_14' data-id='M416_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.015","4MA","16","M416_15","<span class='v M416_15' data-id='M416_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>For when you were seized along with your children, you stood looking upon Eleazar in torments, and said to your sons in the Hebrew tongue, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.016","4MA","16","M416_16","<span class='v M416_16' data-id='M416_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>O sons, noble is the contest; to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.017","4MA","16","M416_17","<span class='v M416_17' data-id='M416_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.018","4MA","16","M416_18","<span class='v M416_18' data-id='M416_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Remember that through God you° obtained existence, and have enjoyed it. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.019","4MA","16","M416_19","<span class='v M416_19' data-id='M416_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>And on this second account you° ought to bear every affliction because of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.020","4MA","16","M416_20","<span class='v M416_20' data-id='M416_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.021","4MA","16","M416_21","<span class='v M416_21' data-id='M416_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>And the righteous Daniel was cast to the lions; and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, were slung out into a furnace of fire; yet they endured through God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.022","4MA","16","M416_22","<span class='v M416_22' data-id='M416_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>You, then, having the same faith towards God, be not troubled. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.023","4MA","16","M416_23","<span class='v M416_23' data-id='M416_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.024","4MA","16","M416_24","<span class='v M416_24' data-id='M416_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.016.025","4MA","16","M416_25","<span class='v M416_25' data-id='M416_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.001","4MA","17","M417_1","<div class='c'>17</div><div class='p'><span class='v M417_1' data-id='M417_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.002","4MA","17","M417_2","<span class='v M417_2' data-id='M417_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>O you mother, who together with seven children did destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.003","4MA","17","M417_3","<span class='v M417_3' data-id='M417_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>For you, as an house bravely built upon the pillar of your children, did bear without swaying, the shock of tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.004","4MA","17","M417_4","<span class='v M417_4' data-id='M417_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm <span class='add'>substance of the</span> hope of your steadfastness with God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.005","4MA","17","M417_5","<span class='v M417_5' data-id='M417_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with your sons who you did illuminate with religion to the stars. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.006","4MA","17","M417_6","<span class='v M417_6' data-id='M417_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>For your bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.007","4MA","17","M417_7","<span class='v M417_7' data-id='M417_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.008","4MA","17","M417_8","<span class='v M417_8' data-id='M417_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.009","4MA","17","M417_9","<span class='v M417_9' data-id='M417_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.010","4MA","17","M417_10","<span class='v M417_10' data-id='M417_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.011","4MA","17","M417_11","<span class='v M417_11' data-id='M417_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.012","4MA","17","M417_12","<span class='v M417_12' data-id='M417_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.013","4MA","17","M417_13","<span class='v M417_13' data-id='M417_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Eleazar was the first to contend: and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the brethren contended. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.014","4MA","17","M417_14","<span class='v M417_14' data-id='M417_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The tyrant was the opposite; and the world and living men were the spectators. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.015","4MA","17","M417_15","<span class='v M417_15' data-id='M417_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.016","4MA","17","M417_16","<span class='v M417_16' data-id='M417_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.017","4MA","17","M417_17","<span class='v M417_17' data-id='M417_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.018","4MA","17","M417_18","<span class='v M417_18' data-id='M417_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.019","4MA","17","M417_19","<span class='v M417_19' data-id='M417_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>For Moses says, And all the saints are under your hands. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.020","4MA","17","M417_20","<span class='v M417_20' data-id='M417_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation; </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.021","4MA","17","M417_21","<span class='v M417_21' data-id='M417_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.022","4MA","17","M417_22","<span class='v M417_22' data-id='M417_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.023","4MA","17","M417_23","<span class='v M417_23' data-id='M417_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.017.024","4MA","17","M417_24","<span class='v M417_24' data-id='M417_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.001","4MA","18","M418_1","<div class='c'>18</div><div class='p'><span class='v M418_1' data-id='M418_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>O Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.002","4MA","18","M418_2","<span class='v M418_2' data-id='M418_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.003","4MA","18","M418_3","<span class='v M418_3' data-id='M418_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>When those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.004","4MA","18","M418_4","<span class='v M418_4' data-id='M418_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>And the nation through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the law in their country, drove the enemy out of the land. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.005","4MA","18","M418_5","<span class='v M418_5' data-id='M418_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers, </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.006","4MA","18","M418_6","<span class='v M418_6' data-id='M418_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.007","4MA","18","M418_7","<span class='v M418_7' data-id='M418_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>And the righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father's house; but I took care of the built-up rib. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.008","4MA","18","M418_8","<span class='v M418_8' data-id='M418_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>No destroyer of the desert, <span class='add'>or</span> ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.009","4MA","18","M418_9","<span class='v M418_9' data-id='M418_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>And these my children, having arrived at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.010","4MA","18","M418_10","<span class='v M418_10' data-id='M418_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>And he used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.011","4MA","18","M418_11","<span class='v M418_11' data-id='M418_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>He used to read to you the slaying of Abel by Cain, and the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.012","4MA","18","M418_12","<span class='v M418_12' data-id='M418_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>And he used to tell you of the zealous Phinehas; and informed you of Ananias and Azarias, and Misael in the fire. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.013","4MA","18","M418_13","<span class='v M418_13' data-id='M418_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>And he used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.014","4MA","18","M418_14","<span class='v M418_14' data-id='M418_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>And he used to put you in mind of the scripture of Esaias, which says, Even if you pass through the fire, it shall not burn you. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.015","4MA","18","M418_15","<span class='v M418_15' data-id='M418_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who says, Many are the afflictions of the just. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.016","4MA","18","M418_16","<span class='v M418_16' data-id='M418_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who says, He is a tree of life to all those who do His will. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.017","4MA","18","M418_17","<span class='v M418_17' data-id='M418_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>He used to verify Ezekiel, who said, Shall these dry bones live? </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.018","4MA","18","M418_18","<span class='v M418_18' data-id='M418_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>For he did not forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.019","4MA","18","M418_19","<span class='v M418_19' data-id='M418_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>This is our life, and the length of our days. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.020","4MA","18","M418_20","<span class='v M418_20' data-id='M418_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments! </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.021","4MA","18","M418_21","<span class='v M418_21' data-id='M418_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.022","4MA","18","M418_22","<span class='v M418_22' data-id='M418_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.023","4MA","18","M418_23","<span class='v M418_23' data-id='M418_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father; having received pure and immortal souls from God. </span>");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinAmericanEnglish_2012__isvl VALUES ("059.018.024","4MA","18","M418_24","<span class='v M418_24' data-id='M418_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. </span>");
