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And he returned to Hebron to our father, who made him lie down near him, because he loved him greatly.

And Joseph told our father that the sons of Zilpah and Bilhah were slaying the best of the flock and eating them against the judgement of Reuben and Judah.

For whatsoever things he told our father, he believed him.

For God brought upon me a disease of the liver; and had not the prayers of Jacob my father succoured me, it had hardly failed but my spirit had departed.

For in the presence of my father I spake peaceably to Joseph; and when I had gone out, the spirit of hatred darkened my mind, and stirred up my soul to slay him.

And though a man become rich by evil means, even as Esau, the brother of my father, be not jealous; but wait for the end of the Lord.

And when he had rested for a little while, he said again; My children, obey your father, and bury me near to my fathers.

For while he was still in health, he said to them: Hearken, ye children of Asher, to your father, and I will declare to you all that is upright in the sight of the Lord.

My brethren and my children, hearken to Joseph the beloved of Israel; give ear, my sons, unto your father.

And I struggled against a shameless woman, urging me to transgress with her; but the God of Israel my father delivered me from the burning flame.

But I remembered the words of my father, and going into my chamber, I wept and prayed unto the Lord.

Now therefore know that the God of my father hath revealed unto me by His angel thy wickedness, and I have kept it to convict thee, if haply thou mayst see and repent.

My brethren knew how my father loved me, and yet I did not exalt myself in my mind: although I was a child, I had the fear of God in my heart; for I knew that all things would pass away.

Now after four and twenty days came the Ishmaelites; for they had heard that Jacob my father was mourning much concerning me.

And they came and said unto me: How is it that thou saidst that thou wast a slave? and lo, we have learnt that thou art the son of a mighty man in the land of Canaan, and thy father still mourneth for thee in sackcloth and ashes.

For they feared my father, lest he should come and execute upon them a grievous vengeance.

And after the death of Jacob my father I loved them more abundantly, and all things whatsoever he commanded I did very abundantly for them.

For my father loved Rachel dearly, and prayed that he might see two sons born from her.

And when I went into Egypt, to Joseph, and my brother recognized me, he said unto me: What did they tell my father when they sold me?

For Joseph also besought our father that he would pray for his brethren, that the Lord would not impute to them as sin whatever evil they had done unto him.

And thus Jacob cried out: My good child, thou hast prevailed over the bowels of thy father Jacob.

Now when Joseph was in Egypt, I longed to see his figure and the form of his countenance; and through the prayers of Jacob my father I saw him, while awake in the daytime, even his entire figure exactly as he was.

And through them he shall go to and fro as Jacob my father, saying: He shall fill up that which lacketh of thy tribe.

And it came to pass after that Hezekiah died and Manasseh became king, that he did not remember the commands of Hezekiah his father but forgat them, and Sammael abode in Manasseh and clung fast to him.

And Manasseh forsook the service of the God of his father, and he served Satan and his angels and his powers.

And he turned aside the house of his father which had been before the face of Hezekiah (from) the words of wisdom and from the service of God.

And after this, whilst they were in the desert, there was a certain man in Samaria named Belchîrâ, of the family of Zedekiah, the son of Chenaan, a false prophet, whose dwelling was in Bethlehem. Now Hezekiah the son of Chanânî, who was the brother of his father, and in the days of Ahab, king of Israel, had been the teacher of the 400 prophets of Baal, had himself smitten and reproved Micaiah the son of Amâdâ the prophet.

This (Belchîrâ), whilst still a youth, had escaped and come to Jerusalem in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, but he walked not in the ways of his father of Samaria; for he feared Hezekiah.

(Namely) in those which have not the name written, and in the words of my father Amos, and of Hosea the prophet, and of Micah and Joel and Nahum and Jonah and Obadiah and Habakkuk and Haggai and Zephaniah and Zechariah and Malachi, and in the words of Joseph the Just and in the words of Daniel.

And on account of the destruction of Sammael, which he had seen through the Lord, while Hezekiah his father was still king. And he did according to the will of Satan.

And His Father also who is greater thou wilt see; for for this purpose have I been sent from the seventh heaven in order to explain all these things unto thee.'

And there they all named the primal Father and His Beloved, the Christ and the Holy Spirit, all with one voice.

And I heard the angel who conducted me and he said: 'This is the Most High of the high ones, dwelling in the holy world, and resting in His holy ones, who will be called by the Holy Spirit through the lips of the righteous the Father of the Lord.'

And I heard the voice of the Most High the Father of my Lord saying to my Lord Christ who will be called Jesus:

And he looked at him and admired him and rejoiced in him and said to Haiqar: 'Is this thy son, O Haiqar? I pray that God may preserve him. And as thou hast served me and my father Sarhadum so may this boy of thine serve me and fulfil my undertakings, my needs, and my business, so that I may honour him and make him powerful for thy sake.'

O my son! let not thy parents curse thee, and the Lord be pleased with them; for it hath been said, "He who despiseth his father or his mother let him die the death (I mean the death of sin); and he who honoureth his parents shall prolong his days and his life and shall see all that is good."

Then Haiqar took the swordsman aside apart from the company and said, 'O Abu Samik, dost thou not know that when Sarhadum the king, the father of Sennacherib, wanted to kill thee, I took thee and hid thee in a certain place till the king's anger subsided and he asked for thee?

And she said, "I am not forgetful of the craft of my father and my mother."

This embassy then I undertook with enthusiasm, having first of all found an opportunity of pleading with the king on behalf of the Jewish captives who had been transported from Judea to Egypt by the king's father, when he first obtained possession of this city and conquered the land of Egypt.

Thinking that the time had come to press the demand, which I had often laid before Sosibius of Tarentum and Andreas, the chief of the bodyguard, for the emancipation of the Jews who had been transported from Judea by the king's father--for when by a combination of good fortune and courage he had brought his attack on the whole district of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia to a successful issue, in the process of terrorising the country into subjection, he transported some of his foes and others he reduced to captivity.

He showed the greatest enthusiasm in the business, for it was God who had brought our purpose to fulfilment in its entirety and constrained him to redeem not only those who had come into Egypt with the army of his father but any who had come before that time or had been subsequently brought into the kingdom.

The decree of the king ran as follows: 'All who served in the army of our father in the campaign against Syria and Phoenicia and in the attack upon the country of the Jews and became possessed of Jewish captives and brought them back to the city of Alexandria and the land of Egypt or sold them to others--and in the same way any captives who were in our land before that time or were brought hither afterwards--all who possess such captives are required to set them at liberty at once, receiving twenty drachmae per head as ransom money.

Since there are many Jews settled in our realm who were carried off from Jerusalem by the Persians at the time of their power and many more who came with my father into Egypt as captives--large numbers of these he placed in the army and paid them higher wages than usual, and when he had proved the loyalty of their leaders he built fortresses and placed them in their charge that the native Egyptians might be intimidated by them.

Why else did our wise father Jacob blame the houses of Simeon and Levi for their unreasoning slaughter of the tribe of the Shechemites, saying, 'Accursed be their anger!'

FOR the Reason of our father Eleazar, like a fine steersman steering the ship of sanctity on the sea of the passions, though buffeted by the threats of the tyrant and swept by the swelling waves of the tortures, never shifted for one moment the helm of sanctity until he sailed into the haven of victory over death.

For our father Eleazar, setting his mind film as a beetling sea-cliff, broke the mad onset of the surges of the passions.

Thou, O father, didst fortify our fidelity to the Law through thy steadfastness unto glory; and having spoken in honour of holiness thou didst not belie thy speech, and didst confirm the words of divine philosophy by thy deeds, O aged man that wast more forceful than the tortures.

For as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the massed congregation against the fiery angel and overcame him, so the son of Aaron, Eleazar, being consumed by the melting heat of the fire, remained unshaken in his Reason.

But he answered in a loud voice, 'Are ye ignorant that the same father begat me and my brothers that are dead, and the same mother gave us birth, and in the same doctrines was I brought up?

Remember that for the sake of God ye have come into the world, and have enjoyed life, and that therefore ye owe it to God to endure all pain for his sake; for whom also our father Abraham made haste to sacrifice his son Isaac, the ancestor of our nation; and Isaac, seeing his father's hand lifting the knife against him, did not shrink.

No seducer of the desert, no deceiver in the field, corrupted me; nor did the false, beguiling Serpent sully the purity of my maidenhood; I lived with my husband all the days of my youth; but when these my sons were grown up, their father died.

The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge:

Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the Father of them.

And ye shall be found incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Hallelujah.

Be enriched in God the Father, and receive the thought of the Most High.

And it became to me for the praise of the Most High, and of God my Father.

As the eyes of a son to his father, so are my eyes, O Lord, at all times towards thee.

The Son is the cup, and He who was milked is the Father:

And the Holy Spirit opened His bosom and mingled the milk from the two breasts of the Father; and gave the mixture to the world without their knowing:

And there was seen at its head, the head which was revealed even the Son of Truth from the Most High Father,

And the name of the Father was on it, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to rule for ever and ever. Hallelujah.

And His face was justified, for thus His holy Father had given to Him.

For the Father of truth remembered me: He who possessed me from the beginning:

The Son of the Most High appeared in the perfection of His Father;

To where are you departing from us, Baruch, and are you forsaking us as a father who forsakes his orphan children, and departs from them?

And truly I know that behold all we the twelve tribes are bound by one bond, inasmuch as we are born from one father.

They wrought confusion, son with mother and father with daughter;

As a father (entereth) the house of his sons, (so) he entered (Jerusalem) in peace; He established his feet (there) in great safety.

Complete of old age on the father came,

The immortal Father, God of all mankind,

And I prayed the great Father for a rest

Another plant. A father purple-clad

Shall cut a warlike father off, and Ares,

Weeps her old father, and Sardinia

Make joy to God the Father at our homes,

And father Gnostos raving mad and false;

One Father, who alone is glorious,

Father of all, be gracious to the land

The Father, the wise God who ever is.

With her own father wedded as a bride;

And of souls, but the mighty Father, God

The imperishable, who himself is Father,

The true One, the King, life-sustaining Father,

To be held fast the most Father gave

Was, actual Word, begotten by his Father,

Having cried: "As the Father did beget

Thee, the Word, Father, I sent forth a bird,

A suppliant; Father, thou provider, hear."

Do thou, O Father, make my wretched heart

For lying with my father a dear son

The Father, nor yet faith and piety

And honorable before his Father God,

Behold the Father. . . .

The Father, nor was it to God the Son.

All-father God, of understanding mind,

Bearing his aged father on his shoulders

The memory of their father, great king, rule,

In memory of his father; and forthwith

From the race of his father, shall receive

For father-land and parents. And a race