right
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OT Pseudepigrapha
O my son! a poor man who does right is better than a rich man who is dead in sins.
Upon this there was a mosaic, worked in the form of a rhombus, having a net-like appearance and reaching right up to the brim.
For our laws have not been drawn up at random or in accordance with the first casual thought that occurred to the mind, but with a view to truth and the indication of right reason.
And your king, as we are informed, does quite right in destroying such men.'
He commanded them to put the rolls back in their places and then after saluting the men, said: 'It was right, men of God, that I should first of all pay my reverence to the books for the sake of which I summoned you here and then when I had done that, to extend the right-hand of friendship to you.
He commanded them to put the rolls back in their places and then after saluting the men, said: 'It was right, men of God, that I should first of all pay my reverence to the books for the sake of which I summoned you here and then when I had done that, to extend the right-hand of friendship to you.
For he had ordered him to make half the men sit at his right hand and the rest behind him, in order that he might not withhold from them the highest possible honour.
And he answered, 'If a right plan is carried out in the hour of danger in accordance with the original intention. For all things are accomplished by God to your advantage, O king, since your purpose is good.'
And he replied, 'All men acknowledge that we ought to show liberality to those who are well disposed towards us, but I think that we ought to show the same keen spirit of generosity to those who are opposed to us that by this means we may win them over to the right and to what is advantageous to ourselves. But we must pray to God that this may be accomplished, for he rules the minds of all men.'
The king expressed his approval and asked another, how he could always maintain a right judgement?
And it would not be right for me to transgress in such a matter as this. I tell the story just as it happened, conscientiously avoiding any error.
For on the following day the minutes of the doings and sayings of the previous day are read over before business commence, and if there has been any irregularity, the matter is at once set right.
After the books had been read, the priests and the elders of the translators and the Jewish community and the leaders of the people stood up and said, that since so excellent and sacred and accurate a translation had been made, it was only right that it should remain as it was and no alteration should be made in it
And he urged the translators to visit him frequently after their return to Judea, for it was only right, he said, that he should now send them home.
But when they came back, he would treat them as friends, as was right, and they would receive rich presents from him.
Therefore we do surely deem it right not. in any way whatsoever to transgress the Law.
And yet, were our Law, as you suggest, not truly divine, while we vainly believed it to be divine, not even so would it be right for us to destroy our reputation for piety.
And it is right that we should admit that the mastery lies with Reason, in cases at least where it conquers pains that come from outside ourselves; for it were ridiculous to deny it.
But they, hearing his persuasions, and seeing his dreadful engines, not only showed no fear but actually arrayed their philosophy in opposition to the tyrant, and by their right Reason did abase his tyranny.
And it is impossible to deny the supremacy of the mind; for they won the victory over their passions and their pains. 19 How can we do otherwise than admit right Reason's mastery over passion with these men who shrank not before the agonies of burning?
For even as towers on harbour-moles repulse the assaults of the waves and offer a calm entrance to those entering the haven, so the seven-towered right Reason of the youths defended the haven of righteousness and repulsed the tempestuousness of the passions.
She saw the flesh of her sons being consumed in the fire, and the extremities of their hands and feet scattered on the ground, and the flesh-covering, torn off from their heads right to their cheeks, strewn about like masks.
For the right hand of the Lord is with you: and He is your helper:
I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:
Stretch out to me, O Lord, at all times thy right hand: and be my guide even unto the end, according to thy good pleasure.
Thou wilt appoint me to victory; our Salvation is thy right hand. And thou wilt receive men from all quarters.
And they who receive in its fulness are the ones on the right hand.
Thy right hand destroyed his wicked poison; and thy hand levelled the way for those who believe in thee.
For thou art the right hand of my Salvation and my helper.
Thou didst set me a lamp at my right hand and at my left: and in me there shall be nothing that is not bright:
For thy right hand lifted me up and removed sickness from me:
But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness;
And I spread out my hands in the lifting up of my soul: and I was made right with the Most High, and I was redeemed with Him. Hallelujah.
For Error flees away from it, and meets it not: but the Truth proceeds in the right path, and
By the beautiful planting of His right hand: and by the discovery of His planting, and by the thought of His mind. Hallelujah.