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The Letter of Aristeas 8:20

And he replied, 'You have asked me a. question which is very difficult to answer, for we cannot bring our true selves into play during the hours for sleep, but are held fast in these by imaginations that cannot be controlled by reason. For our souls possess the feeling that they actually see the things that enter into our consciousness during sleep. But we make a mistake if we suppose that we are actually sailing on the sea in boats or flying through the air [*1] or travelling to other regions or anything else of the kind. And yet we actually do imagine such things to be taking place.

The Letter of Aristeas 8:38

And he replied, 'To our parents continually, for God has given us a most important commandment with regard to the honour due to parents. In the next place He reckons the attitude of friend towards friend for He speaks of "a friend which is as thine own soul." You do well in trying to bring all men into friendship with yourself.'

The Letter of Aristeas 9:10

And he said, 'If you recognize that it is God who has put the thoughts into the hearts of the lawgivers that the lives of men might be preserved, you will follow them.'

The Letter of Aristeas 9:36

And he explained, 'To deliberate well in reference to any question that emerges and never to be carried away by impulses, but to ponder over the injuries that result from the passions, and to act rightly as the circumstances demand, practising moderation. But we must pray to God to instil into our mind a regard for these things.'

4 Maccabees 2:20

Apollonius having made inquiry into the details of the matter, praised Simon for his loyal service to the king, and hastening to the court of Seleucus, disclosed to him the valuable treasure; then, after receiving authority to deal with the matter, he promptly marched into our country, accompanied by the accursed Simon and a very powerful army, and announced that he was there by the king's command to take possession of the private deposits in the treasury.

4 Maccabees 2:20

Apollonius having made inquiry into the details of the matter, praised Simon for his loyal service to the king, and hastening to the court of Seleucus, disclosed to him the valuable treasure; then, after receiving authority to deal with the matter, he promptly marched into our country, accompanied by the accursed Simon and a very powerful army, and announced that he was there by the king's command to take possession of the private deposits in the treasury.

4 Maccabees 2:22

Apollonius, however, with threats, made his way into the temple.

4 Maccabees 3:15

There they cast him on it, burning him with cruelly cunning devices, and they poured broth of evil odour into his nostrils.

4 Maccabees 4:1

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.

4 Maccabees 4:39

But no such words escaped these young men at the prospect of the torture, nor did such thoughts enter into their minds.

4 Maccabees 5:55

And they made sharp skewers red-hot and ran them into his back, and piercing through his sides they burned away his entrails also.

4 Maccabees 6:1

AND when this one also died a blessed death, being cast into the cauldron, the seventh son, the youngest of them all, came forward.

4 Maccabees 6:14

And with this prayer he cast himself into the red-hot brazier, and so gave up the ghost.

4 Maccabees 6:31

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

4 Maccabees 7:34

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.

4 Maccabees 7:39

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.

4 Maccabees 7:40

And Daniel, the just man, was cast to the lions, and Ananias, Azarias, and Mishael were flung into the furnace of fire, and they endured for God's sake.

4 Maccabees 8:22

'I was a pure maiden, and I strayed not from my father's house, and I kept guard over the rib that was builded into Eve.

Odes of Solomon 7:11

And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:

Odes of Solomon 8:16

For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:

Odes of Solomon 16:17

And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of God: IS And there is nothing that is without the Lord; for He was before any thing came into being:

Odes of Solomon 17:13

And I sowed my fruits in hearts, and transformed them into myself: and they received my blessing and lived;

Odes of Solomon 18:19

And they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most High breathed into them; Praise and great comeliness to His name Hallelujah.

Odes of Solomon 20:7

But put on the grace of the Lord without stint; and come into His Paradise and make thee a garland from its tree,

Odes of Solomon 33:7

And forsake the ways of that corruption and draw near unto me, and I will enter into you, and will bring you forth from perdition,

Odes of Solomon 38:1

I went up to the light of truth as if into a chariot:

Odes of Solomon 38:15

And I was made wise so as not to fall into the hands of the deceiver; and I congratulated myself because the Truth went with me,

2 Baruch 3:1

And I said: 'O LORD, my Lord, have I come into the world for this purpose that I might see the evils of my mother? Not (so) my Lord.

2 Baruch 5:1

And I answered and said: 'So then I am destined to grieve for Zion, For your enemies will come to this place and pollute Your sanctuary, And lead your inheritance into captivity, And make themselves masters of those whom you have loved, And they will depart again to the place of their idols, And will boast before them: And what will you do for Your great name?'

2 Baruch 6:7

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.

2 Baruch 10:16

Or why, again, should mankind have sons? Or why should the seed of their kind again be named, Where this mother is desolate, And her sons are led into captivity?

2 Baruch 10:18

Moreover, (you priests) take you the keys of the sanctuary, And cast them into the height of heaven, And give them to the Lord and say: "Guard Your house Thyself, For lo! we are found false stewards.

2 Baruch 10:19

And you, you virgins; who weave fine linen And silk with gold of Ophir, Take with haste all (these) things And cast (them) into the fire, That it may bear them to Him who made them, And the flame send them to Him who created them, Lest the enemy get possession of them.

2 Baruch 25:3

When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the earth, and they shall fall into many tribulations, and again when they shall fall into great torments.

2 Baruch 25:3

When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the earth, and they shall fall into many tribulations, and again when they shall fall into great torments.

2 Baruch 27:1

And He answered and said unto me: 'Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it.

2 Baruch 33:2

"Look to this people till I go and make ready the rest of the brethren in Babylon against whom has gone forth the sentence that they should be led into captivity"?

2 Baruch 35:5

But now our glorying has been made into dust, And the desire of our soul into sand.'

2 Baruch 35:5

But now our glorying has been made into dust, And the desire of our soul into sand.'

2 Baruch 36:4

Now that fountain came to the forest and was (stirred) into great waves, and those waves submerged that forest, and suddenly they rooted out the greater part of that forest, and overthrew all the mountains which were round about it.

2 Baruch 39:6

And by it the truth will be hidden, and all those who are polluted with iniquity will flee to it, as evil beasts flee and creep into the forest.

2 Baruch 46:7

[Which I before told you of; nor shall you fall into the torment, of which I testified to you before.'

2 Baruch 48:8

With nods of fear and indignation You command the flames, And they change into spirits, And with a word you quicken that which was not, And with mighty power you hold that which has not yet come.

2 Baruch 48:15

And take not account of our works; For what are we? For lo! by Your gift do we come into the world, And we depart not of our own will.

2 Baruch 48:35

And honor shall be turned into shame, And strength humiliated into contempt, And probity destroyed, And beauty shall become ugliness.

2 Baruch 48:35

And honor shall be turned into shame, And strength humiliated into contempt, And probity destroyed, And beauty shall become ugliness.

2 Baruch 51:3

Also (as for) the glory of those who have now been justified in My law, who have had understanding in their life, and who have planted in their heart the root of wisdom, then their splendor shall be glorified in changes, and the form of their face shall be turned into the light of their beauty, that they may be able to acquire and receive the world which does not die, which is then promised to them.

2 Baruch 51:5

When therefore they see those, over whom they are now exalted, (but) who shall then be exalted and glorified more than they, they shall respectively be transformed, the latter into the splendor of angels, and the former shall yet more waste away in wonder at the visions and in the beholding of the forms.

2 Baruch 51:10

For in the heights of that world shall they dwell, And they shall be made like unto the angels, And be made equal to the stars, And they shall be changed into every form they desire, From beauty into loveliness, And from light into the splendor of glory.

2 Baruch 51:10

For in the heights of that world shall they dwell, And they shall be made like unto the angels, And be made equal to the stars, And they shall be changed into every form they desire, From beauty into loveliness, And from light into the splendor of glory.

2 Baruch 51:10

For in the heights of that world shall they dwell, And they shall be made like unto the angels, And be made equal to the stars, And they shall be changed into every form they desire, From beauty into loveliness, And from light into the splendor of glory.

2 Baruch 56:4

And it came to pass when the word had gone forth from His presence, that the duration of the world had come into being in a small degree, and was established according to the multitude of the intelligence of Him who sent it.

2 Baruch 56:6

For [since] when he transgressed Untimely death came into being, Grief was named And anguish was prepared, And pain was created, And trouble consummated, And disease began to be established, And Sheol kept demanding that it should be renewed in blood, And the begetting of children was brought about, And the passion of parents produced, And the greatness of humanity was humiliated, And goodness languished.

2 Baruch 64:8

For though his prayer was heard with the Most High, finally, when he was cast into the brazen horse and the brazen horse was melted, it served as a sign unto him for the hour.

2 Baruch 65:1

'Thus, moreover, did Manasseh act impiously, and thought that in his time the Mighty One would not inquire into these things.

2 Baruch 66:4

[And the festivals and the Sabbaths he established in their sanctity], and their polluted ones he burnt in the fire, and the lying prophets which deceived the people, these also he burnt in the fire, and the people who listened to them when they were living, he cast them into the brook Kidron, and heaped stones upon them.

2 Baruch 68:2

For after these things time will come when your people shall fall into distress, so that they shall all run the risk of perishing together.

2 Baruch 70:4

And the many shall be delivered into the hands of the few, And those who were nothing shall rule over the strong, And the poor shall have abundance beyond the rich, And the impious shall exalt themselves above the heroic.

2 Baruch 70:9

[And it shall come to pass that whoever of the victors and the vanquished gets safe out of and escapes all these things aforesaid will be delivered into the hands of My servant Messiah.]

2 Baruch 73:4

And judgments, and abusive talk, and contentions, and revenges, And blood, and passions, and envy, and hatred, And whatsoever things are like these shall go into condemnation when they are removed.

2 Baruch 75:2

Or who can search into your compassions, Which are infinite?

2 Baruch 77:4

And because your brethren transgressed the commandments of the Most High, And He spared not the former, And the latter also He gave into captivity: And He left not a residue of them,

2 Baruch 78:2

Thus says Baruch the son of Neriah to the brethren carried into captivity: 'Mercy and peace.' I bear in mind, my brethren, the love of Him who created us, who loved us from of old, and never hated us, but above all educated us.

2 Baruch 83:4

Let none therefore of these present things ascend into your hearts, but above all let us be expectant, because that which is promised to us shall come.

2 Baruch 83:10

For all healthinesses of this time are turning into diseases,

2 Baruch 83:11

And all might of this time is turning into weakness, And all the force of this time is turning into impotence,

2 Baruch 83:11

And all might of this time is turning into weakness, And all the force of this time is turning into impotence,

2 Baruch 83:12

And every energy of youth is turning into old age and consummation. And every beauty of gracefulness of this time is turning faded and hateful,

2 Baruch 83:13

And every proud dominion of the present is turning into humiliation and shame,

2 Baruch 83:14

And every praise of the glory of this time is turning into the shame of silence, And every vain splendor and insolence of this time is turning into voiceless ruin.

2 Baruch 83:14

And every praise of the glory of this time is turning into the shame of silence, And every vain splendor and insolence of this time is turning into voiceless ruin.

2 Baruch 83:16

And every clamor of the pride of this time is turning into dust and stillness.

2 Baruch 83:17

And every possession of riches of this time is being turned into Sheol alone,

2 Baruch 83:18

And all the rapine of passion of this time is turning into involuntary death, And every passion of the lusts of this time is turning into a judgment of torment.

2 Baruch 83:18

And all the rapine of passion of this time is turning into involuntary death, And every passion of the lusts of this time is turning into a judgment of torment.

2 Baruch 83:19

And every artifice and craftiness of this time is turning into a proof of the truth,

2 Baruch 83:20

And every sweetness of unguents of this time is turning into judgment and condemnation,

Psalms of Solomon 2:29

Delay not, O God, to recompense them on (their) heads, To turn the pride of the dragon into dishonour.

Psalms of Solomon 9:1

When Israel was led away captive into a strange land, When they fell away from the Lord who redeemed them,

Psalms of Solomon 11:5

High mountains hath He abased into a plain for them;

Psalms of Solomon 13:10

But sinners shall be taken away into destruction, And their memorial shall be found no more.

The Sibylline Oracles 1:7

Truly how into being came the world.

The Sibylline Oracles 1:10

The King most high, who brought into existence

The Sibylline Oracles 1:127

Into Tartarean chamber terrible,

The Sibylline Oracles 1:143

And battles sent some into Erebus,

The Sibylline Oracles 1:147

Casting them into mighty Tartarus

The Sibylline Oracles 1:340

Into one place. And then went Noah forth

The Sibylline Oracles 1:390

To cease from wrath, and into other depths

The Sibylline Oracles 2:44

Into the heavenly sky, and it shall be

The Sibylline Oracles 2:72

And into unjust judgment come thou not.

The Sibylline Oracles 2:191

And entrance into immortality,

The Sibylline Oracles 2:249

And heavenly lights shall break up into one

The Sibylline Oracles 2:250

And into outward form all-desolate.

The Sibylline Oracles 2:251

For stars from heaven shall fall into all seas.

The Sibylline Oracles 3:96

Of short lived men into the deep shall cast,

The Sibylline Oracles 3:115

Into the world again, and therefore he

The Sibylline Oracles 3:121

To mount aloft into the starry heaven;

The Sibylline Oracles 3:168

Him into Phrygia to be reared apart

The Sibylline Oracles 3:483

And sometime into Asia's prosperous land

The Sibylline Oracles 3:801

And chiefs all flee into another land,