holy
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OT Pseudepigrapha
And also the angel of the Holy Spirit I saw sitting on the left hand.
... Such things ye will read. And watch ye in the Holy Spirit in order that ye may receive your garments and thrones and crowns of glory which are laid up in the seventh heaven.
It is worth while that I should tell you this story, too, since I am convinced that you, with your disposition towards holiness and your sympathy with men who are living in accordance with the holy law, will all the more readily listen to the account which I purpose to set forth, since you yourself have lately come to us from the island and are anxious to hear everything that tends to build up the soul.
Immediately therefore I offered sacrifices on behalf of you, your sister, your children, and your friends, and all the people prayed that your plans might prosper continually, and that Almighty God might preserve your kingdom in peace with honour, and that the translation of the holy law might prove advantageous to you and be carried out successfully.
And he said, 'To honour God, and this is done not with gifts and sacrifices but with purity of soul and holy conviction, since all things are fashioned and governed by God in accordance with His will. Of this purpose you are in constant possession as all men can she from your achievements in the past and in the present.'
And they explained that it was a token that they had done no evil (for every form of activity is wrought by means of the hands) since in their noble and holy way they regard everything as a symbol of righteousness and truth.
Then the priests in the temple and the women and children besought God to come to the rescue of his Holy Place that was being violated; and when Apollonius with his armed host marched in to seize the moneys, there appeared from heaven angels, riding upon horses, with lightning flashing from their arms, and cast great fear and trembling upon them.
For he said that he had sinned and was worthy even of death, and that if he were given his life he would laud to all men the blessedness of the Holy Place.
And with these words the holy man nobly yielded up his spirit under the torture I and for the sake of the Law held out by his Reason even against the torments unto death.
No city besieged with many and cunning engines ever defended itself so well as did that holy man when his sacred soul was attacked with scourge and rack and flame, and he moved them who were laying siege to his soul through his Reason that was the shield of sanctity.
O priest worthy of thy priesthood, thou didst not defile thy holy teeth, nor didst thou befoul with unclean meat thy belly that had room only for piety and purity.
War a holy and honourable warfare on behalf of righteousness, through which may the just Providence that watched over our fathers become merciful unto his people and take vengeance on the accursed tyrant.'
And with these words the holy youth yielded up the ghost.
They formed a holy choir of righteousness as they cheered one another on, saying:
O Reasoning minds, more kingly than kings, than freemen more free, of the harmony of the seven brethren, holy and well attuned to the keynote of piety!
For as hands and feet move in harmony with the promptings of the soul, so those holy youths, as if prompted by the immortal soul of religion, went in harmony to death for its sake.
O all-holy sevenfold companionship of brethren in harmony!
O holy nature, and parental love, and yearning of parents for offspring, and wages of nursing, and unconquerable affection of mothers!
But the holy and God-fearing mother wailed not with this lamentation over any one of them, neither besought she any to escape death, nor lamented over them as dying men; but, as though she had a soul of adamant and were bringing forth the number of her sons, for a second time, into immortal life, she besought rather and entreated of them that they should die for religion's sake.
For truly it was a holy war which was fought by them. For on that day virtue, proving them through endurance, set before them the prize of victory in incorruption in everlasting life.
No man, O my God, changeth thy holy place;
And the praise of His name He gave us: our spirits praise His holy Spirit.
To bring forth fruit to the Lord [fruit], holy [fruit], and to talk with watchfulness in His light.
I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby.
The word of the Lord and His good pleasures, the holy thought which He has devised concerning his Messiah.
For the Most High clave my heart by His Holy Spirit and searched my affection towards Him: and filled me with His love.
And open to me the harp of thy Holy Spirit, that with all its notes I may praise thee, O Lord.
In Him I have acquired eyes and have seen His holy day:
And the Holy Spirit milked Him: because His breasts were full, and it was necessary for Him that His milk should be sufficiently released;
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 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 I became mighty in: the truth, and holy by thy righteousness; and all my adversaries were afraid of me;
And I will speak His holy song, for my heart is with Him.
And His face was justified, for thus His holy Father had given to Him.
And words from the Truth, who was self-originate: for He is strengthened by the holy power of the Most High: and He is unperturbed for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle.
And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle.
And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle.
And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle.
You that rule with great thought the hosts that stand before you: also the countless holy beings, which you did make from the beginning, of flame and fire, which stand around Your throne you rule with indignation.
And I answered and said unto the people: 'Far be it from me to forsake you or to withdraw from you, but I will only go unto the Holy of Holies to inquire of the Mighty One concerning you and concerning Zion, if in some respect I should receive more illumination: and after these things I will return to you.
And I, Baruch, went to the holy place, and sat down upon the ruins and wept, and said:
Because in that place where I am now prostrate, Of old the high priest offered holy sacrifices, And placed thereon an incense of fragrant odors.
And the holy festivals were fulfilled in blessedness and in much joy.
And all those who were in the holy land rejoiced, and the name of the Mighty One was glorified so that it was spoken of
And he cleansed the land from idols, and hallowed all the vessels which had been polluted, and restored the offerings to the altar, and raised the horn of the holy, and exalted the righteous, and honored all that were wise in understanding, and brought back the priests to their ministry, and destroyed and removed the magicians and enchanters and necromancers from the land.
'And the holy land shall have mercy on its own, And it shall protect its inhabitants at that time.
And remember you the law and Zion, and the holy land and your brethren, and the covenant of your fathers, and forget not the festivals and the Sabbaths.
[Know, moreover, that In former times and in the generations of old our fathers had helpers, Righteous men and holy prophets:
Their transgressions (went) beyond those of the heathen before them; They utterly polluted the holy things of the Lord.
Because the sons of Jerusalem had defiled the holy things of the Lord, Had profaned with iniquities the offerings of God.
For Thou hast rejected them, O God; Let not their foot trample upon Thy holy inheritance.
A sound I hear (moving) towards Jerusalem, the holy city.
Put on, O Jerusalem, thy glorious garments; Make ready thy holy robe; For God hath spoken good concerning Israel, for ever and ever.
And he shall gather together a holy people, whom he shall lead in righteousness, And he shall judge the tribes of the people that has been sanctified by the Lord his God.
And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it holy as of old:
And there shall be no unrighteousness in his days in their midst, For all shall be holy and their king the anointed of the Lord.
And (relying) upon his God, throughout his days he will not stumble; For God will make him mighty by means of (His) holy spirit, And wise by means of the spirit of understanding, with strength and righteousness.
His words (shall be) like the words of the holy ones in the midst of sanctified peoples.
A guarding of one's self by holy life."
Of Solomon in the holy land shall fall,
That live a holy life and know one God.
Perform for men. And then of holy men,
Holy Giver of manna, King of the great realm.
Over men. And a holy Lord shall come
To leave the holy land. And thou shalt be
The holy law of the immortal God
For God himself will give the holy dream
And out of heaven from holy ones to thee
Didst shed that of good, just, and holy men,
of a holy God sink down in ocean depths,
And there shall be again a holy race
Burnt-offerings, and holy hecatombs,
And the hand of the Holy One. And then shall all
Out of the holy land of the mighty One.
Holy law to the pious, unto whom
There perished many holy faithful men
When he spoke with fair word and holy lips,
[And be expert in songs and holy tongues],
The holy land of the only pious men
With holy offerings and fair hecatombs.
And he set order, and a holy house
So that all holy and all righteous men
And by the Holy Spirit donning flesh
Swift messenger of words, with holy waters
Do not afflict me, holy fear of God
And then a holy Lord of all the earth
And when the holy child shall crush with bonds
Holy arms, conquering Amalek by faith,
By the holy hands of God, and whom by guile
To the creation, to a holy virgin
His holy back; [for he unto the world
A holy virgin shall himself commit.]
Daughter of Zion, holy one, rejoice,
The holy hymn of understanding mouths
Vieing with them that lead a holy life
Sprung from the holy race of the heavenly Christ
The immortal holy God imperishable,
Her holy city. But when he by flight
Of the changed kingdom; then a holy king,