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CHAPTER 41. 1 O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! 2 To a man that is at rest, and…

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CHAPTER 42. 1 REPEAT not the word which thou hast heard, and disclose not the thing that is secret; so shalt thou be truly without confusion, and shah find favour…

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CHAPTER 43. 1 The firmament on high is his beauty, the beauty of heaven with its glorious shew. 2 The sun when he appeareth shewing forth at his rising, an…

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CHAPTER 44. 1 LET us now praise men of renown, and our fathers in their generation. 2 The Lord hath wrought great glory through his magnificence from the beginning. 3…

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CHAPTER 45. 1 MOSES was beloved of God, and men: whose memory is in benediction. 2 He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear…

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CHAPTER 46. 1 VALIANT in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of Moses among the prophets, who was great according to his name, 2 Very great…

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CHAPTER 47. 1 Then Nathan the prophet arose in the days of David. 2 And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from among the…

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CHAPTER 48. 1 AND Elias the prophet stood up, as a fire, and his word burnt like a torch. 2 He brought a famine upon them, and they that provoked…

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CHAPTER 49. 1 The memory of Josias is like the composition of a sweet smell made by the art of a perfumer: 2 His remembrance shall be sweet as honey…

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CHAPTER 50. 1 SIMON the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life propped up the house, and in his days fortified the temple. 2 By him also…