INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_28","057_5_28","3MA","5","28","28","But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_29","057_5_29","3MA","5","29","29","Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_30","057_5_30","3MA","5","30","30","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_31","057_5_31","3MA","5","31","31","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_32","057_5_32","3MA","5","32","32","Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_33","057_5_33","3MA","5","33","33","Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_34","057_5_34","3MA","5","34","34","The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_35","057_5_35","3MA","5","35","35","The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_36","057_5_36","3MA","5","36","36","Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_37","057_5_37","3MA","5","37","37","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_38","057_5_38","3MA","5","38","38","Once more, arm the elephants against the morrow for the extermination of the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_39","057_5_39","3MA","5","39","39","His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_40","057_5_40","3MA","5","40","40","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_41","057_5_41","3MA","5","41","41","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_42","057_5_42","3MA","5","42","42","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_43","057_5_43","3MA","5","43","43","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_44","057_5_44","3MA","5","44","44","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_45","057_5_45","3MA","5","45","45","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_46","057_5_46","3MA","5","46","46","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_47","057_5_47","3MA","5","47","47","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 Jews. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_48","057_5_48","3MA","5","48","48","But the Jews, 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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_49","057_5_49","3MA","5","49","49","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_50","057_5_50","3MA","5","50","50","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 ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M35_51","057_5_51","3MA","5","51","51","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_1","057_6_1","3MA","6","1","1","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_2","057_6_2","3MA","6","2","2","O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_3","057_6_3","3MA","6","3","3","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_4","057_6_4","3MA","6","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_5","057_6_5","3MA","6","5","5","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_6","057_6_6","3MA","6","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_7","057_6_7","3MA","6","7","7","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_8","057_6_8","3MA","6","8","8","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_9","057_6_9","3MA","6","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_10","057_6_10","3MA","6","10","10","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_11","057_6_11","3MA","6","11","11","Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_12","057_6_12","3MA","6","12","12","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_13","057_6_13","3MA","6","13","13","Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_14","057_6_14","3MA","6","14","14","The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech you. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_15","057_6_15","3MA","6","15","15","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_16","057_6_16","3MA","6","16","16","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_17","057_6_17","3MA","6","17","17","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_18","057_6_18","3MA","6","18","18","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_19","057_6_19","3MA","6","19","19","And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies' host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_20","057_6_20","3MA","6","20","20","And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_21","057_6_21","3MA","6","21","21","They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_22","057_6_22","3MA","6","22","22","The king's wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_23","057_6_23","3MA","6","23","23","For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_24","057_6_24","3MA","6","24","24","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_25","057_6_25","3MA","6","25","25","Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_26","057_6_26","3MA","6","26","26","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_27","057_6_27","3MA","6","27","27","Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_28","057_6_28","3MA","6","28","28","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_29","057_6_29","3MA","6","29","29","These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_30","057_6_30","3MA","6","30","30","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_31","057_6_31","3MA","6","31","31","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_32","057_6_32","3MA","6","32","32","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_33","057_6_33","3MA","6","33","33","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_34","057_6_34","3MA","6","34","34","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_35","057_6_35","3MA","6","35","35","But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgivings, and psalms. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_36","057_6_36","3MA","6","36","36","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_37","057_6_37","3MA","6","37","37","They requested the king to send them back to their homes. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_38","057_6_38","3MA","6","38","38","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_39","057_6_39","3MA","6","39","39","The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_40","057_6_40","3MA","6","40","40","They feasted upon the king's provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M36_41","057_6_41","3MA","6","41","41","The king commended them, and wrote the subjoined letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_1","057_7_1","3MA","7","1","1","King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_2","057_7_2","3MA","7","2","2","We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_3","057_7_3","3MA","7","3","3","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_4","057_7_4","3MA","7","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_5","057_7_5","3MA","7","5","5","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_6","057_7_6","3MA","7","6","6","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_7","057_7_7","3MA","7","7","7","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_8","057_7_8","3MA","7","8","8","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_9","057_7_9","3MA","7","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_10","057_7_10","3MA","7","10","10","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_11","057_7_11","3MA","7","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_12","057_7_12","3MA","7","12","12","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_13","057_7_13","3MA","7","13","13","Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_14","057_7_14","3MA","7","14","14","Then they punished and destroyed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_15","057_7_15","3MA","7","15","15","slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_16","057_7_16","3MA","7","16","16","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_17","057_7_17","3MA","7","17","17","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_18","057_7_18","3MA","7","18","18","they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_19","057_7_19","3MA","7","19","19","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_20","057_7_20","3MA","7","20","20","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_21","057_7_21","3MA","7","21","21","They had more weight than before amongst their enemies; and were honoured and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_22","057_7_22","3MA","7","22","22","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M37_23","057_7_23","3MA","7","23","23","Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel to everlasting. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_1","059_1_1","4MA","1","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_2","059_1_2","4MA","1","2","2","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_3","059_1_3","4MA","1","3","3","If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_4","059_1_4","4MA","1","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_5","059_1_5","4MA","1","5","5","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_6","059_1_6","4MA","1","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_7","059_1_7","4MA","1","7","7","I might prove to you, from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_8","059_1_8","4MA","1","8","8","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_9","059_1_9","4MA","1","9","9","For all these, contemning pains even to death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_10","059_1_10","4MA","1","10","10","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 honours, I may count them happy. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_11","059_1_11","4MA","1","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_12","059_1_12","4MA","1","12","12","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_13","059_1_13","4MA","1","13","13","The question, therefore, is, whether reasoning be absolute master of the passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_14","059_1_14","4MA","1","14","14","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_15","059_1_15","4MA","1","15","15","Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_16","059_1_16","4MA","1","16","16","And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_17","059_1_17","4MA","1","17","17","And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_18","059_1_18","4MA","1","18","18","And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_19","059_1_19","4MA","1","19","19","The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_20","059_1_20","4MA","1","20","20","Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_21","059_1_21","4MA","1","21","21","And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_22","059_1_22","4MA","1","22","22","Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_23","059_1_23","4MA","1","23","23","And before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_24","059_1_24","4MA","1","24","24","Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_25","059_1_25","4MA","1","25","25","And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_26","059_1_26","4MA","1","26","26","In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_27","059_1_27","4MA","1","27","27","In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_28","059_1_28","4MA","1","28","28","As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_29","059_1_29","4MA","1","29","29","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_30","059_1_30","4MA","1","30","30","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_31","059_1_31","4MA","1","31","31","Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_32","059_1_32","4MA","1","32","32","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_33","059_1_33","4MA","1","33","33","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_34","059_1_34","4MA","1","34","34","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M41_35","059_1_35","4MA","1","35","35","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_1","059_2_1","4MA","2","1","1","And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_2","059_2_2","4MA","2","2","2","on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_3","059_2_3","4MA","2","3","3","For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_4","059_2_4","4MA","2","4","4","And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_5","059_2_5","4MA","2","5","5","For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_6","059_2_6","4MA","2","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_7","059_2_7","4MA","2","7","7","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_8","059_2_8","4MA","2","8","8","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_9","059_2_9","4MA","2","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_10","059_2_10","4MA","2","10","10","For the law conquers even affection towards parents, not surrendering virtue on their account. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_11","059_2_11","4MA","2","11","11","And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_12","059_2_12","4MA","2","12","12","And it lords it over the love of parents towards their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_13","059_2_13","4MA","2","13","13","And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_14","059_2_14","4MA","2","14","14","It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_15","059_2_15","4MA","2","15","15","And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_16","059_2_16","4MA","2","16","16","For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_17","059_2_17","4MA","2","17","17","Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_18","059_2_18","4MA","2","18","18","For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_19","059_2_19","4MA","2","19","19","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_20","059_2_20","4MA","2","20","20","For if reasoning did not possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_21","059_2_21","4MA","2","21","21","For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_22","059_2_22","4MA","2","22","22","And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_23","059_2_23","4MA","2","23","23","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M42_24","059_2_24","4MA","2","24","24","How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_1","059_3_1","4MA","3","1","1","The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_2","059_3_2","4MA","3","2","2","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_3","059_3_3","4MA","3","3","3","One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_4","059_3_4","4MA","3","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_5","059_3_5","4MA","3","5","5","For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_6","059_3_6","4MA","3","6","6","And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_7","059_3_7","4MA","3","7","7","For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_8","059_3_8","4MA","3","8","8","then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire host of our ancestors was encamped. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_9","059_3_9","4MA","3","9","9","Now all the rest of them were at supper; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_10","059_3_10","4MA","3","10","10","but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_11","059_3_11","4MA","3","11","11","but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy's camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_12","059_3_12","4MA","3","12","12","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_13","059_3_13","4MA","3","13","13","and unperceived by the guardians of the gate, they went throughout the whole camp of the enemy in quest. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_14","059_3_14","4MA","3","14","14","And having boldly discovered the fountain, they filled out of it the draught for the king. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_15","059_3_15","4MA","3","15","15","But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood, would be terribly dangerous to his soul. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_16","059_3_16","4MA","3","16","16","Therefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_17","059_3_17","4MA","3","17","17","For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_18","059_3_18","4MA","3","18","18","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_19","059_3_19","4MA","3","19","19","But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_20","059_3_20","4MA","3","20","20","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M43_21","059_3_21","4MA","3","21","21","then certain persons, bringing in new things contrary to the general unanimity, in various ways fell into calamities. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_1","059_4_1","4MA","4","1","1","For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honourable 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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_2","059_4_2","4MA","4","2","2","Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phoenicia, and Cilicia, he said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_3","059_4_3","4MA","4","3","3","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_4","059_4_4","4MA","4","4","4","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_5","059_4_5","4MA","4","5","5","and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_6","059_4_6","4MA","4","6","6","he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_7","059_4_7","4MA","4","7","7","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_8","059_4_8","4MA","4","8","8","But Appolonius went away with threats into the temple. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_9","059_4_9","4MA","4","9","9","And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_10","059_4_10","4MA","4","10","10","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 armour, filling them with much fear and trembling. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_11","059_4_11","4MA","4","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_12","059_4_12","4MA","4","12","12","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_13","059_4_13","4MA","4","13","13","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_14","059_4_14","4MA","4","14","14","and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_15","059_4_15","4MA","4","15","15","But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of haughty pride and terrible. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_16","059_4_16","4MA","4","16","16","Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_17","059_4_17","4MA","4","17","17","who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand and six hundred and sixty talents. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_18","059_4_18","4MA","4","18","18","And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_19","059_4_19","4MA","4","19","19","And he both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_20","059_4_20","4MA","4","20","20","So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, but neglected the guardianship of the temple. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_21","059_4_21","4MA","4","21","21","At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_22","059_4_22","4MA","4","22","22","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_23","059_4_23","4MA","4","23","23","And having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the laws of his country he should die. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_24","059_4_24","4MA","4","24","24","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_25","059_4_25","4MA","4","25","25","for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M44_26","059_4_26","4MA","4","26","26","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_1","059_5_1","4MA","5","1","1","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_2","059_5_2","4MA","5","2","2","commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine's flesh, and things offered to idols. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_3","059_5_3","4MA","5","3","3","And should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel, and so killed. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_4","059_5_4","4MA","5","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_5","059_5_5","4MA","5","5","5","And Antiochus seeing him, said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_6","059_5_6","4MA","5","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_7","059_5_7","4MA","5","7","7","For therefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_8","059_5_8","4MA","5","8","8","It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_9","059_5_9","4MA","5","9","9","And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_10","059_5_10","4MA","5","10","10","And you will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_11","059_5_11","4MA","5","11","11","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_12","059_5_12","4MA","5","12","12","and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_13","059_5_13","4MA","5","13","13","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_14","059_5_14","4MA","5","14","14","While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_15","059_5_15","4MA","5","15","15","And having received power to speak, he began thus to deliver himself: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_16","059_5_16","4MA","5","16","16","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_17","059_5_17","4MA","5","17","17","therefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_18","059_5_18","4MA","5","18","18","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_19","059_5_19","4MA","5","19","19","think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offence. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_20","059_5_20","4MA","5","20","20","For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_21","059_5_21","4MA","5","21","21","for in either case the law is equally slighted. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_22","059_5_22","4MA","5","22","22","But you deride our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_23","059_5_23","4MA","5","23","23","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_24","059_5_24","4MA","5","24","24","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_25","059_5_25","4MA","5","25","25","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, sympathises with our nature. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_26","059_5_26","4MA","5","26","26","Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_27","059_5_27","4MA","5","27","27","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_28","059_5_28","4MA","5","28","28","but you shall not have this cause of laughter against me; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_29","059_5_29","4MA","5","29","29","nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_30","059_5_30","4MA","5","30","30","No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_31","059_5_31","4MA","5","31","31","I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defence of my religion. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_32","059_5_32","4MA","5","32","32","Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_33","059_5_33","4MA","5","33","33","I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_34","059_5_34","4MA","5","34","34","I will not belie you, O law, my instructor! or forsake you, O beloved self-control! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_35","059_5_35","4MA","5","35","35","I will not put you to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny you, O honoured priesthood, and science of the law. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_36","059_5_36","4MA","5","36","36","Mouth! you shall not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_37","059_5_37","4MA","5","37","37","My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though to death. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M45_38","059_5_38","4MA","5","38","38","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_1","059_6_1","4MA","6","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_2","059_6_2","4MA","6","2","2","And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_3","059_6_3","4MA","6","3","3","Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_4","059_6_4","4MA","6","4","4","a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_5","059_6_5","4MA","6","5","5","But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_6","059_6_6","4MA","6","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_7","059_6_7","4MA","6","7","7","And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_8","059_6_8","4MA","6","8","8","then one of the harsh spearbearers leapt upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_9","059_6_9","4MA","6","9","9","But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_10","059_6_10","4MA","6","10","10","and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_11","059_6_11","4MA","6","11","11","His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_12","059_6_12","4MA","6","12","12","Therefore, partly in pity for his old age, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_13","059_6_13","4MA","6","13","13","partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_14","059_6_14","4MA","6","14","14","Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_15","059_6_15","4MA","6","15","15","We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine's flesh. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_16","059_6_16","4MA","6","16","16","And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_17","059_6_17","4MA","6","17","17","Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_18","059_6_18","4MA","6","18","18","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_19","059_6_19","4MA","6","19","19","and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_20","059_6_20","4MA","6","20","20","It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_21","059_6_21","4MA","6","21","21","and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_22","059_6_22","4MA","6","22","22","Therefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_23","059_6_23","4MA","6","23","23","You° spearbearers of the tyrant, why do you° linger? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_24","059_6_24","4MA","6","24","24","Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_25","059_6_25","4MA","6","25","25","then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_26","059_6_26","4MA","6","26","26","And he being at length burnt down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_27","059_6_27","4MA","6","27","27","You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_28","059_6_28","4MA","6","28","28","Be merciful to your people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_29","059_6_29","4MA","6","29","29","Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_30","059_6_30","4MA","6","30","30","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_31","059_6_31","4MA","6","31","31","Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_32","059_6_32","4MA","6","32","32","For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_33","059_6_33","4MA","6","33","33","But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_34","059_6_34","4MA","6","34","34","And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M46_35","059_6_35","4MA","6","35","35","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_1","059_7_1","4MA","7","1","1","The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_2","059_7_2","4MA","7","2","2","and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_3","059_7_3","4MA","7","3","3","in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_4","059_7_4","4MA","7","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_5","059_7_5","4MA","7","5","5","For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_6","059_7_6","4MA","7","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_7","059_7_7","4MA","7","7","7","O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_8","059_7_8","4MA","7","8","8","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_9","059_7_9","4MA","7","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_10","059_7_10","4MA","7","10","10","O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigourous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_11","059_7_11","4MA","7","11","11","For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_12","059_7_12","4MA","7","12","12","so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_13","059_7_13","4MA","7","13","13","And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labours of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_14","059_7_14","4MA","7","14","14","By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_15","059_7_15","4MA","7","15","15","O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_16","059_7_16","4MA","7","16","16","If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_17","059_7_17","4MA","7","17","17","But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_18","059_7_18","4MA","7","18","18","But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_19","059_7_19","4MA","7","19","19","they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_20","059_7_20","4MA","7","20","20","This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_21","059_7_21","4MA","7","21","21","since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_22","059_7_22","4MA","7","22","22","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_23","059_7_23","4MA","7","23","23","For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_24","059_7_24","4MA","7","24","24","Whence it is, that even boys, imbued with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M47_25","059_7_25","4MA","7","25","25","for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,- ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_1","059_8_1","4MA","8","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_2","059_8_2","4MA","8","2","2","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_3","059_8_3","4MA","8","3","3","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_4","059_8_4","4MA","8","4","4","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_5","059_8_5","4MA","8","5","5","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_6","059_8_6","4MA","8","6","6","Put confidence in me, then, and you shall receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national ordinance, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_7","059_8_7","4MA","8","7","7","and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth's delights. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_8","059_8_8","4MA","8","8","8","For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_9","059_8_9","4MA","8","9","9","Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_10","059_8_10","4MA","8","10","10","Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_11","059_8_11","4MA","8","11","11","Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_12","059_8_12","4MA","8","12","12","And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapults, and cauldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_13","059_8_13","4MA","8","13","13","Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you° worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_14","059_8_14","4MA","8","14","14","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_15","059_8_15","4MA","8","15","15","Now let us consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly amongst them, what reasonings would they have employed but these? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_16","059_8_16","4MA","8","16","16","O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_17","059_8_17","4MA","8","17","17","Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_18","059_8_18","4MA","8","18","18","Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_19","059_8_19","4MA","8","19","19","Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_20","059_8_20","4MA","8","20","20","And let us bear in mind that we shall be dying as rebels. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_21","059_8_21","4MA","8","21","21","And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_22","059_8_22","4MA","8","22","22","Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_23","059_8_23","4MA","8","23","23","Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_24","059_8_24","4MA","8","24","24","The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_25","059_8_25","4MA","8","25","25","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_26","059_8_26","4MA","8","26","26","But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M48_27","059_8_27","4MA","8","27","27","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_1","059_9_1","4MA","9","1","1","Why delay you, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_2","059_9_2","4MA","9","2","2","And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_3","059_9_3","4MA","9","3","3","O tyrant, counsellor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as you do, pity us more than we pity ourselves. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_4","059_9_4","4MA","9","4","4","For we account escape to be worse than death. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_5","059_9_5","4MA","9","5","5","And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though you had learnt nothing by the death of Eleazar. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_6","059_9_6","4MA","9","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_7","059_9_7","4MA","9","7","7","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_8","059_9_8","4MA","9","8","8","For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_9","059_9_9","4MA","9","9","9","But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_10","059_9_10","4MA","9","10","10","When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_11","059_9_11","4MA","9","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_12","059_9_12","4MA","9","12","12","And when they had laboured hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_13","059_9_13","4MA","9","13","13","And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_14","059_9_14","4MA","9","14","14","And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_15","059_9_15","4MA","9","15","15","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_16","059_9_16","4MA","9","16","16","And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,— ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_17","059_9_17","4MA","9","17","17","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_18","059_9_18","4MA","9","18","18","For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_19","059_9_19","4MA","9","19","19","While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_20","059_9_20","4MA","9","20","20","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_21","059_9_21","4MA","9","21","21","And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_22","059_9_22","4MA","9","22","22","But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_23","059_9_23","4MA","9","23","23","Imitate me, O brethren, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honourable fight of religion; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_24","059_9_24","4MA","9","24","24","by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_25","059_9_25","4MA","9","25","25","And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_26","059_9_26","4MA","9","26","26","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_27","059_9_27","4MA","9","27","27","And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_28","059_9_28","4MA","9","28","28","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_29","059_9_29","4MA","9","29","29","How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_30","059_9_30","4MA","9","30","30","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_31","059_9_31","4MA","9","31","31","For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M49_32","059_9_32","4MA","9","32","32","But you are tortured with threatenings for impiety; and you shall not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_1","059_10_1","4MA","10","1","1","Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_2","059_10_2","4MA","10","2","2","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_3","059_10_3","4MA","10","3","3","I abjure not the noble relationship of my brethren. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_4","059_10_4","4MA","10","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_5","059_10_5","4MA","10","5","5","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_6","059_10_6","4MA","10","6","6","And they dragged round his fingers, and his arms, and his legs, and his ankles. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_7","059_10_7","4MA","10","7","7","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_8","059_10_8","4MA","10","8","8","around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_9","059_10_9","4MA","10","9","9","And when about to die, he said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_10","059_10_10","4MA","10","10","10","We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_11","059_10_11","4MA","10","11","11","But you, for your impiety and blood shedding, shall endure indissoluble torments. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_12","059_10_12","4MA","10","12","12","And thus having died worthily of his brethren, they dragged forward the fourth, saying, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_13","059_10_13","4MA","10","13","13","Do not you share the madness of your brethren: but give regard to the king, and save yourself. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_14","059_10_14","4MA","10","14","14","But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_15","059_10_15","4MA","10","15","15","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_16","059_10_16","4MA","10","16","16","Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_17","059_10_17","4MA","10","17","17","When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_18","059_10_18","4MA","10","18","18","But he said, Even if you take away the organ of speech, yet God hears the silent. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_19","059_10_19","4MA","10","19","19","Behold, my tongue is extended, cut it off; for not for that halt you extirpate our reasoning. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_20","059_10_20","4MA","10","20","20","Gladly do we lose our limbs in behalf of God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M410_21","059_10_21","4MA","10","21","21","But God shall speedly find you, since you cut off the tongue, the instrument of divine melody. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_1","059_11_1","4MA","11","1","1","And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leapt forward, and said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_2","059_11_2","4MA","11","2","2","I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_3","059_11_3","4MA","11","3","3","But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_4","059_11_4","4MA","11","4","4","O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_5","059_11_5","4MA","11","5","5","Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_6","059_11_6","4MA","11","6","6","But this is worthy of honours, not torments; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_7","059_11_7","4MA","11","7","7","had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_8","059_11_8","4MA","11","8","8","Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious towards God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_9","059_11_9","4MA","11","9","9","As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_10","059_11_10","4MA","11","10","10","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_11","059_11_11","4MA","11","11","11","With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_12","059_11_12","4MA","11","12","12","A great favour you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_13","059_11_13","4MA","11","13","13","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_14","059_11_14","4MA","11","14","14","I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_15","059_11_15","4MA","11","15","15","for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_16","059_11_16","4MA","11","16","16","So that if you° think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean;—torment! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_17","059_11_17","4MA","11","17","17","As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_18","059_11_18","4MA","11","18","18","Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_19","059_11_19","4MA","11","19","19","And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burnt away his entrails. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_20","059_11_20","4MA","11","20","20","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_21","059_11_21","4MA","11","21","21","For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_22","059_11_22","4MA","11","22","22","Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my brethren. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_23","059_11_23","4MA","11","23","23","I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_24","059_11_24","4MA","11","24","24","We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_25","059_11_25","4MA","11","25","25","For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_26","059_11_26","4MA","11","26","26","Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M411_27","059_11_27","4MA","11","27","27","For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_1","059_12_1","4MA","12","1","1","When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the cauldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_2","059_12_2","4MA","12","2","2","whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_3","059_12_3","4MA","12","3","3","seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavoured to counsel him, saying, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_4","059_12_4","4MA","12","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_5","059_12_5","4MA","12","5","5","But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_6","059_12_6","4MA","12","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_7","059_12_7","4MA","12","7","7","And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) says, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_8","059_12_8","4MA","12","8","8","Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_9","059_12_9","4MA","12","9","9","And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_10","059_12_10","4MA","12","10","10","And he, running up to the pans, said, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_11","059_12_11","4MA","12","11","11","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_12","059_12_12","4MA","12","12","12","Therefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_13","059_12_13","4MA","12","13","13","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_14","059_12_14","4MA","12","14","14","But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion towards God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_15","059_12_15","4MA","12","15","15","But you shall groan according to your deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_16","059_12_16","4MA","12","16","16","Therefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_17","059_12_17","4MA","12","17","17","will not forsake my brethren. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_18","059_12_18","4MA","12","18","18","And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_19","059_12_19","4MA","12","19","19","But you, both living and dead, he will punish. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M412_20","059_12_20","4MA","12","20","20","Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_1","059_13_1","4MA","13","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_2","059_13_2","4MA","13","2","2","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_3","059_13_3","4MA","13","3","3","now it is not so: but by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_4","059_13_4","4MA","13","4","4","And it is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection: for it gained the victory over both passions and troubles. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_5","059_13_5","4MA","13","5","5","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? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_6","059_13_6","4MA","13","6","6","For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbours men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_7","059_13_7","4MA","13","7","7","so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the intermperance of passions. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_8","059_13_8","4MA","13","8","8","For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_9","059_13_9","4MA","13","9","9","Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_10","059_13_10","4MA","13","10","10","Let us not be cowards in the manifestation of piety. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_11","059_13_11","4MA","13","11","11","And one said, Courage, brother; and another, Nobly endure. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_12","059_13_12","4MA","13","12","12","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_13","059_13_13","4MA","13","13","13","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_14","059_13_14","4MA","13","14","14","Let us not fear him who thinks he kills; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_15","059_13_15","4MA","13","15","15","for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_16","059_13_16","4MA","13","16","16","Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_17","059_13_17","4MA","13","17","17","If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_18","059_13_18","4MA","13","18","18","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_19","059_13_19","4MA","13","19","19","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_20","059_13_20","4MA","13","20","20","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_21","059_13_21","4MA","13","21","21","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; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_22","059_13_22","4MA","13","22","22","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_23","059_13_23","4MA","13","23","23","Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_24","059_13_24","4MA","13","24","24","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_25","059_13_25","4MA","13","25","25","For a like ardour for what is right and honourable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_26","059_13_26","4MA","13","26","26","For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M413_27","059_13_27","4MA","13","27","27","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_1","059_14_1","4MA","14","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_2","059_14_2","4MA","14","2","2","O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_3","059_14_3","4MA","14","3","3","Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven brethren as concerning piety! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_4","059_14_4","4MA","14","4","4","None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_5","059_14_5","4MA","14","5","5","But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_6","059_14_6","4MA","14","6","6","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_7","059_14_7","4MA","14","7","7","O holy seven of harmonious brethren! for as the seven days of creation, about religion, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_8","059_14_8","4MA","14","8","8","so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_9","059_14_9","4MA","14","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_10","059_14_10","4MA","14","10","10","And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_11","059_14_11","4MA","14","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_12","059_14_12","4MA","14","12","12","For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_13","059_14_13","4MA","14","13","13","And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_14","059_14_14","4MA","14","14","14","where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_15","059_14_15","4MA","14","15","15","The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses, defend their fledglings. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_16","059_14_16","4MA","14","16","16","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_17","059_14_17","4MA","14","17","17","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_18","059_14_18","4MA","14","18","18","But why should we point attention to the sympathy towards children shown by irrational animals? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_19","059_14_19","4MA","14","19","19","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M414_20","059_14_20","4MA","14","20","20","But sympathy with her children did not turn aside the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_1","059_15_1","4MA","15","1","1","O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_2","059_15_2","4MA","15","2","2","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_3","059_15_3","4MA","15","3","3","rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_4","059_15_4","4MA","15","4","4","O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents towards 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! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_5","059_15_5","4MA","15","5","5","for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_6","059_15_6","4MA","15","6","6","And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love towards them; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_7","059_15_7","4MA","15","7","7","and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_8","059_15_8","4MA","15","8","8","yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_9","059_15_9","4MA","15","9","9","Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection towards them was increased. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_10","059_15_10","4MA","15","10","10","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_11","059_15_11","4MA","15","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_12","059_15_12","4MA","15","12","12","But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_13","059_15_13","4MA","15","13","13","O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_14","059_15_14","4MA","15","14","14","At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_15","059_15_15","4MA","15","15","15","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_16","059_15_16","4MA","15","16","16","O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_17","059_15_17","4MA","15","17","17","O you only woman who have brought forth perfect holiness! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_18","059_15_18","4MA","15","18","18","Your firstborn, expiring, turned you not; nor the second, looking miserable in his torments; nor the third, breathing out his soul. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_19","059_15_19","4MA","15","19","19","Nor when you did behold the eyes of each of them looking sternly upon their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death, did you weep! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_20","059_15_20","4MA","15","20","20","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_21","059_15_21","4MA","15","21","21","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! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_22","059_15_22","4MA","15","22","22","With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_23","059_15_23","4MA","15","23","23","But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_24","059_15_24","4MA","15","24","24","Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_25","059_15_25","4MA","15","25","25","For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counsellors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_26","059_15_26","4MA","15","26","26","she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_27","059_15_27","4MA","15","27","27","did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_28","059_15_28","4MA","15","28","28","But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_29","059_15_29","4MA","15","29","29","O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_30","059_15_30","4MA","15","30","30","O you nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_31","059_15_31","4MA","15","31","31","For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M415_32","059_15_32","4MA","15","32","32","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_1","059_16_1","4MA","16","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_2","059_16_2","4MA","16","2","2","I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_3","059_16_3","4MA","16","3","3","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 burnt within her, when she *saw her seven sons tortured. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_4","059_16_4","4MA","16","4","4","But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_5","059_16_5","4MA","16","5","5","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: ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_6","059_16_6","4MA","16","6","6","Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_7","059_16_7","4MA","16","7","7","O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labour, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_8","059_16_8","4MA","16","8","8","Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_9","059_16_9","4MA","16","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_10","059_16_10","4MA","16","10","10","Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_11","059_16_11","4MA","16","11","11","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_12","059_16_12","4MA","16","12","12","Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_13","059_16_13","4MA","16","13","13","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_14","059_16_14","4MA","16","14","14","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_15","059_16_15","4MA","16","15","15","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_16","059_16_16","4MA","16","16","16","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_17","059_16_17","4MA","16","17","17","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_18","059_16_18","4MA","16","18","18","Remember that through God you° obtained existence, and have enjoyed it. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_19","059_16_19","4MA","16","19","19","And on this second account you° ought to bear every affliction because of God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_20","059_16_20","4MA","16","20","20","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_21","059_16_21","4MA","16","21","21","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_22","059_16_22","4MA","16","22","22","You, then, having the same faith towards God, be not troubled. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_23","059_16_23","4MA","16","23","23","For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_24","059_16_24","4MA","16","24","24","With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M416_25","059_16_25","4MA","16","25","25","And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_1","059_17_1","4MA","17","1","1","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_2","059_17_2","4MA","17","2","2","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! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_3","059_17_3","4MA","17","3","3","For you, as an house bravely built upon the pillar of your children, did bear without swaying, the shock of tortures. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_4","059_17_4","4MA","17","4","4","Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_5","059_17_5","4MA","17","5","5","Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established honourable before God, and fixed in the firmament with your sons who you did illuminate with religion to the stars. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_6","059_17_6","4MA","17","6","6","For your bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_7","059_17_7","4MA","17","7","7","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_8","059_17_8","4MA","17","8","8","And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_9","059_17_9","4MA","17","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_10","059_17_10","4MA","17","10","10","These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_11","059_17_11","4MA","17","11","11","For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_12","059_17_12","4MA","17","12","12","For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_13","059_17_13","4MA","17","13","13","Eleazar was the first to contend: and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the brethren contended. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_14","059_17_14","4MA","17","14","14","The tyrant was the opposite; and the world and living men were the spectators. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_15","059_17_15","4MA","17","15","15","And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_16","059_17_16","4MA","17","16","16","Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_17","059_17_17","4MA","17","17","17","The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_18","059_17_18","4MA","17","18","18","through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_19","059_17_19","4MA","17","19","19","For Moses says, And all the saints are under your hands. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_20","059_17_20","4MA","17","20","20","These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honoured not only with this honour, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation; ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_21","059_17_21","4MA","17","21","21","and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_22","059_17_22","4MA","17","22","22","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_23","059_17_23","4MA","17","23","23","For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M417_24","059_17_24","4MA","17","24","24","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_1","059_18_1","4MA","18","1","1","O Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_2","059_18_2","4MA","18","2","2","Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_3","059_18_3","4MA","18","3","3","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_4","059_18_4","4MA","18","4","4","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_5","059_18_5","4MA","18","5","5","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, ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_6","059_18_6","4MA","18","6","6","then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_7","059_18_7","4MA","18","7","7","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_8","059_18_8","4MA","18","8","8","No destroyer of the desert, or 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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_9","059_18_9","4MA","18","9","9","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_10","059_18_10","4MA","18","10","10","And he used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_11","059_18_11","4MA","18","11","11","He used to read to you the slaying of Abel by Cain, and the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_12","059_18_12","4MA","18","12","12","And he used to tell you of the zealous Phinehas; and informed you of Ananias and Azarias, and Misael in the fire. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_13","059_18_13","4MA","18","13","13","And he used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_14","059_18_14","4MA","18","14","14","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_15","059_18_15","4MA","18","15","15","He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who says, Many are the afflictions of the just. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_16","059_18_16","4MA","18","16","16","He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who says, He is a tree of life to all those who do His will. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_17","059_18_17","4MA","18","17","17","He used to verify Ezekiel, who said, Shall these dry bones live? ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_18","059_18_18","4MA","18","18","18","For he did not forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_19","059_18_19","4MA","18","19","19","This is our life, and the length of our days. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_20","059_18_20","4MA","18","20","20","O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel cauldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments! ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_21","059_18_21","4MA","18","21","21","He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_22","059_18_22","4MA","18","22","22","Therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_23","059_18_23","4MA","18","23","23","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. ");
INSERT INTO SeptuagintinBritish_InternationalEnglish_2012__vpl VALUES ("M418_24","059_18_24","4MA","18","24","24","To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ");
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