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And he told him the truth. 'I am Haiqar the scribe, greatest of the Privy Councillors of king Sennacherib, and I am his vizier and the Governor of his kingdom, and his Chancellor.'

And he said to him, 'Thou hast told the truth in this saying. But we have heard of Haiqar, that king Sennacherib has slain him, yet thou dost seem to be alive and well.'

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.

The king bestowed praise upon him and then asked another how he could maintain the truth?

In reply to the question he said, 'By recognizing that a lie brings great disgrace upon all men, and more especially upon kings. For since they have the power to do whatever they wish, why should they resort to lies? In addition to this you must always remember, O King, that God is a lover of the truth.

And he replied, 'That a man should be conscious in himself that he has wrought no evil and that he should live his life in the truth. Since it is from these, O mighty King, that the greatest joy and steadfastness of soul and strong faith in God accrue to you if you rule your realm in piety.'

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.

But judgement or self-control is the one that dominates them all, for through it, in truth, Reason asserts its authority over the passions.

But it will be still greater folly, I think, on your part if with idle vapouring about truth you shall proceed to defy even me to your own punishment.

But the great-souled and noble man, an Eleazar in very truth, was no more moved in his mind than if he were being tormented in a dream; yea, the old man keeping his eyes steadfastly raised to heaven suffered his flesh to be tom by the scourges till he was bathed in blood and his sides became a mass of wounds; and even when he fell to the ground because his body could no longer support the pain he still kept his Reason erect and inflexible.

Contrary to Reason, indeed, were it for us, after living unto the truth till old age, and guarding in lawful guise the repute of so living, now to change and become in our own persons a pattern to the young of impiety, to the end that we should encourage them to eat unclean meat.

They wove for me a crown of truth, and it caused thy branches to bud in me.

Hear the word of truth, and receive the knowledge of the Most High.

And understand my knowledge, ye who know me in truth.

An everlasting crown for ever is Truth. Blessed are they who set it on their heads:

And His opening of me became my salvation; and I ran in His way in His peace, even in the way of truth:

And I was established upon the rock of truth, where He had set me up:

He hath filled me with words of truth; that I may speak the same;

And like the flow of waters flows truth from my mouth, and my lips show forth His fruit.

For the dwelling-place of the Word is man: and its truth is love.

Blessed are they who by means thereof have understood everything, and have known the Lord in His truth. Hallelujah.

Teach me the Psalms of thy truth, that I may bring forth fruit in thee:

Ears have become mine and I have heard His truth.

And the thought of truth led me on. And I walked after it and did not wander:

And He who knew and brought me up is the Most High in all His perfection. And He glorified me by His kindness, and raised my thoughts to the height of His truth.

Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.

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

And thou shalt receive of His kindness and of His grace; and thou shalt be flourishing in truth in the praise of His holiness. Praise and honour be to His name. Hallelujah.

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

And the Lord destroyed the imaginations of all them that had not the truth with them.

For they who in their hearts were lifted up were deficient in wisdom, and so they were rejected, because the truth was not with them.

And I became mighty in: the truth, and holy by thy righteousness; and all my adversaries were afraid of me;

Error went astray and perished at His hand: and folly found no path to walk in, and was submerged by the truth of the Lord.

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 make you wise in the ways of truth: that you be not destroyed nor perish:

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

And the Truth took me and led me: and carried me across pits and gulleys; and from the rocks and the waves it preserved me:

And it went with me and made me rest, and suffered me not to wander, because it was the Truth;

And I did not make an error in anything because I obeyed the Truth.

For Error flees away from it, and meets it not: but the Truth proceeds in the right path, and

And I asked the Truth 'Who are these?'; and He said to me, 'This is the deceiver and the error:

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,

All the Lord's children will praise Him, and will collect the truth of His faith.

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

That He might save souls for ever by the truth of His name: a new song arises from those who love Him. Hallelujah.