9 Matt. 24

8.

r Rom. 2. 9
& 8. 35.
Cp. Hab. 1.
12

27

& 2 Macc. 6. 12.

5. 3.

9. 37.

17 Woe is me! woe is me! who will moment: 39 even so shall not the evils
deliver me in those days?

18 9 The beginning of sorrows, and Mark 13. 8. there shall be great mournings; the beginning of famine, and many shall perish; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils, and all shall tremble! what shall they do in all this when the evils shall come? 19 Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish! they are sent as scourges for amendment. 20 But for all these things they shall not & Judith 8. turn them from their wickedness, nor be alway mindful of the scourges. 21 Behold, victuals shall be so good cheap Cp.1 Thess. upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion. 22 For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the famine, shall the sword "See 2 Kin. destroy. 23 And the dead "shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be left desolate, and the cities thereof shall be cast down. 24 There shall be no husbandman left to till the earth, and to sow it. 25 The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them? 26 The Isai. 16. 10. grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for in all places there shall be a great forsaking: 27 for one man shall desire to see another, or to hear his Cp. Amos voice. 28 w For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which have hidden themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks. 297 As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there be left three or four olives, 3o or as when a vineyard is gathered there be some clusters left by them that diligently seek through the vineyard; 31 even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword. 32 And the earth shall be left desolate, and the fields thereof shall be for briers, and her ways and all her paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep shall pass therethrough. 33a The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers. 34 In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.

5. 3.

* Isai. 2. 21. y Cp. Isai. 17. 6

& 24. 13

& Obad. 5.

* Isai. 7. 23.

Cp. Ps. 78. & Jer. 7. 34

63

& Rev. 18. 23.

b Isai. 13. 8. Jer. 50. 43. Cp. Jer. 6. 24

& John 16. 21

& 1 Thess. 5. 3.

35 Hear now these things, and understand them, ye servants of the Lord. 36 Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: disbelieve not the things whereof the Lord speaketh. 37 Behold, the evils draw nigh, and are not slack. 386 Like as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draweth near, within two or three hours doleful pains compass her womb, and when the child cometh forth from the womb, there shall be no tarrying for a

* See ch. 7. 57.

See ch. 8.

39.

For ver.

41---44, see 1 Cor. 7. 29-31.

be slack to come upon the earth, and
the world shall groan, and sorrows shall
take hold of it on every side. 400 my
people, hear my word: make you ready
to the battle, and in those evils be even
das pilgrims upon the earth. 41 He
that selleth, let him be as he that fleeth
away: and he that buyeth, as one that
will lose: 42 he that occupieth mer-
chandise, as he that hath no profit by
it: and he that buildeth, as he that Ezek. 27. 9.
shall not dwell therein: 43 he that sow-
eth, as if he should not reap: so also he
that pruneth the vines, as he that shall
not gather the grapes: 44 they that marry,
as they that shall get no children; and
they that marry not, as the widowed.
45 Inasmuch as they that labour labour
in vain; 469 for strangers shall reap their Cp. Deut.
fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow
their houses, and take their children
captive, for in captivity and famine shall
they beget their children: 47 and they
that traffick traffick to become a spoil:
the more they deck their cities, their
houses, their possessions, and their own
persons, 48 the more will I hate them for
their sins, saith the Lord. 49 Like as a
right honest and virtuous woman hateth
a harlot, 50 so shall righteousness hate
iniquity, when she decketh herself, and Cp. ch. 15.
shall accuse her to her face, when he
cometh that shall defend him that dili-
gently searcheth out every sin upon
earth.

28. 30
& Amos 5.
11.

54.

Jer. 2. 35. Cp. 1 John 1. 8.

10

22

Ps. 94. 11.

See Ps. 139. 1-3.

See 1 Sam.

16. 7.

" Ps. 148. 5. See Gen. 1.

1.

° Ps. 147. 4.

51 Therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof. 52 For iyet Heb. 10. 37. a little while, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign over us. 53 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his Cp. Ps. 140. head, which saith, I have not sinned & Proy, 25. before God and his glory. 54 Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, mand their hearts. 55" Who said, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was made. 56 And at his word were the stars established, and he knoweth the number of the stars. 57 Who searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; PheP hath measured the sea, and what it containeth. 589 Who hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word hath the hanged the earth upon the See Ps. 24. waters. 598 Who spreadeth out the hea$ See Job 9. ven like a vault; upon the waters hath 8. he founded it. 60 Who hath made in Ps. 107. 35. the desert springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, to send forth rivers from the height to water the earth. 61 u Who framed man, and put a heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding, 6a yea, the spirit of God Almighty. He who made all things, and searcheth out hidden things in hidden

Isai. 40. 12.

Job 38. 8.

Ps. 104. 9.

2.

" See Gen. 2. 7.

TOBIT.

ch. 4. 16. Job 31. 17, 19.

Isai. 58. 7. w ch. 2.7, 8 & 8.12 & 12. 12. Cp. 2 Esd. 2.23

& Ecclus. 38. 16.

* 2 Kin. 19.
35, 36.
Isai. 37. 36,
37.
Ecclus. 48.
18, 21.
1 Macc. 7.
41.

9 Enemessar I did many almsdeeds to my brethren: "I gave my bread to the hungry, 17 and my garments to the naked: and if I saw any of my race dead, and cast forth on the wall of Nineveh, wI buried him. 18 And if u Sennacherib the king slew any, when he came fleeing from Judæa, wI buried them privily; for in his wrath he slew many; and the bodies were sought for by the king, and were not found. 19 But one of the Ninevites went and shewed to the king concerning me, how that I buried them, and hid myself; and when I knew that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear. 20 y And all my goods were forcibly taken away, and there was nothing left unto me, save my wife m Anna and my son Tobias. 21 And there passed not five and fifty days, beIsai. 37. 38. fore two of his sons slew him, and they fled into the mountains of a Ararat. And 2 Sarchedonus his son reigned in his stead; and he appointed over all the accounts of his kingdom, and over all

2 Macc. 8. 19

& 15. 22. * Cp. ch. 4,

21.

22 Kin. 19. 37.

2 Chr. 32. 21.

a See Gen.
8.4.

b ch. 2. 10
& 11. 18
& 14. 10.
Cp. Neh. 1.
11.

d Gen. 41.42.
Esth. 8. 2.
e Cp. Gen.
41.40.

9 Acts 2. 1.

his affairs, Achiacharus my brother
Anael's son. 22 And Achiacharus made
request for me, and I came to Nineveh.
Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, and
d keeper of the signet, and steward, and
overseer of the accounts: and Sarche-
donus appointed him enext unto him-
self: but he was my brother's son.

sparrows in the wall; and, mine eyes
being open, the sparrows muted warm
dung into mine eyes, and white films
came in mine eyes; and I went to the
physicians, and they helped me not:
but m Achiacharus did nourish me, until ch. 1. 21.
I went into "Elymais.

n 1 Macc. 6.

1.

22.1.

II And my wife Anna did spin in the women's chambers, 12and did send the work back to the owners. And they on their part paid her wages, and gave her also besides a kid. 13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it stolen ? render it to the owners; for it Cp. Deut. is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen. 14 But she said, It hath been given me for a gift more than the wages. And I did not believe her, and I bade her render it to the owners; and I was abashed at her. But P she answered and said unto me, Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, 4 thou and all thy works are known.

And I was grieved and wept, and 3 prayed in sorrow, saying,

Cp. Job 2.9

& Ecclus. 11. 23.

Cp. ch. 1.3.

9. 15.
Ps. 25. 10.

8.75
& Ecclus.
23. 2, 3.

23.
See Deut.
28. 37.

20 Lord, thou art righteous, and See Ezra all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest true and righteous judgement for ever. 3 Remember me, and look on me; take not vengeance on me for my sins and mine ignorances, Cp. 1 Esd. and the sins of my fathers, which sinned Now when I was come home before thee: 4 for they disobeyed thy comfch. 1. 9, 20. 2 again, and my wife Anna was re-mandments; and thou gavest us for a stored unto me, and my son Tobias, spoil, and for captivity, and for death, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the and for a proverb of reproach to all " 2 Esd. 4. Ex. 34. 22. holy feast of the seven weeks, there was the nations among whom we are disa good dinner prepared me, and I sat persed. 5 And now many are thy judgedown to eat. And I saw abundance ments, true are they; that thou shouldest of meat, and I said to my son, Go and deal with me according to my sins and bring what poor man soever thou shalt the sins of my fathers: because we did find of our brethren, who is mindful of not keep thy commandments, for we the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee. walked not in truth before thee. 6 And 3 And he came, and said, Father, one of now deal with me according to that our race is strangled, and is cast out in which is pleasing in thy sight, comthe marketplace. 4 And before I had mand my spirit to be taken from me, tasted aught, I sprang up, and took him that I may be released, and become up into a chamber until the sun was set. earth: for it is profitable for me to die 5 And I returned, and washed myself, rather than to live, because I whave and ate my bread in heaviness, 6 and heard false reproaches, and there is remembered the prophecy of Amos, as much sorrow in me: command that I he said, be now released from my distress, and go to the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.

i Amos 8.10. Cp. 1 Macc. 1. 39.

j See ch. 1. 17.

* ch. 1. 19.

See Num. 19. 11.

i Your feasts shall be turned into
mourning,

And all your mirth into lamentation.
7 And I wept: and when the sun was
set, I went and made a grave, and buried
him. 8 And my neighbours mocked me,
and said, He is no longer afraid to be
put to death for this matter: and yet
khe fled away: and, lo, he burieth the
dead again. 9 And the same night I
returned from burying him, and slept
by the wall of my courtyard, being
polluted; and my face was uncovered:
10 and I knew not that there were

7 The same day it happened unto Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ec-ch. 6. 5 batana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father's maidservants; 8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodeus a the evil spirit slew them, before they had lain with her. And they said unto her, Dost thou not know that thou stranglest 15, 17 thy husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, and thou hast had no profit of any one of them. 9 Wherefore

2 That is, Esar-haddon, and so in ver. 22. 3 Some authorities read until he went. 4 Gr. all things are known with thee.

5 Gr. demon.

* ver. 17.
a ch. 6. 14,

(& mg. for
mg.)
& 8. 3
(& mg. for
mg.).

ch. 6. 14. Cp. Gen. 42.38

& 44. 31.

10.

d ch. 8. 5 & 11. 14.

Ps. 145. 10. Cp. Ps. 123.

1.

7, 8. Prov. 3. 9. Ecclus. 7. 10 & 12 3. Luke 11.41, al. ver. 16. Ecclus. 14. 10. • Ecclus. 14.

8

& 31. 13. Cp. 2 Cor.

9.7.

4.

❝ Ecclus. 35.
10.

Cp. 1 Cor.
16. 2
& 2 Cor. 8.

12.

1 Tim. 6. 19.

ch. 12. 9.

Cp. ch. 14.

10

& Ecclus. 3. 30

dost thou scourge us? if they be dead, perously succeed to thee, and to all them go thy ways with them; let us never see that do righteousness. 71 Give alms of Deut. 15. of thee either son or daughter. 10 When thy substance; and when thou givest she heard these things, she was grieved alms, slet not thine eye be envious: exceedingly, so that she thought to have turn not away thy face from any poor hanged herself: and she said, I am the man, and the face of God shall not be only daughter of my father; if I do this, turned away from thee. 8 u As thy subit shall be a reproach unto him, and I stance is, give alms of it according to shall bring down his old age with sorrow thine abundance: if thou have little, be to the grave. And she prayed by not afraid to give alms according to that Cp. Dan. 6. the window, and said, d Blessed art thou, little: 9" for thou layest up a good O Lord my God, and blessed is thy holy treasure for thyself against the day of and honourable name for ever: elet all necessity: 10 w because alms delivereth Ecclus. 4. thy works praise thee for ever. 12 And from death, and suffereth not to come now, Lord, I have set mine eyes and into darkness. II Alms is a good gift in my face toward thee: 13 command that the sight of the Most High for all that I be released from the earth, and that I give it. 12 Beware, my child, of all no more hear reproach. 14 Thou know-whoredom, and take first a wife of the est, Lord, that I am pure from all sin seed of thy fathers, and take not a with man, 15 and that I never polluted strange wife, which is not of thy father's my name, nor the name of my father, in tribe: for we are the sons of the prothe land of my captivity: I am the only phets. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, daughter of my father, and he hath no our fathers of old time, remember, my child that shall be his heir, nor brother child, that they all took wives of their near him, nor son belonging to him, that brethren, and were blessed in their I should keep myself for a wife unto children, and their seed shall inherit the Cp. Ezra him: seven husbands of mine are dead land. 13 And now, my child, love thy already; why should I live? And if it brethren, and scorn not in thy heart thy pleaseth thee not to slay me, command brethren, and the sons and the daughters some regard to be had of me, and pity of thy people, to take a wife of them: for taken of me, and that I hear no more in scornfulness is destruction and much reproach. trouble, and in naughtiness is decay and great want: for naughtiness is the mother of famine. 14 Let not the wages of any man, which shall work for thee, tarry with thee, but render it unto him out of hand: and if thou serve God, recompense shall be made unto thee. Take heed to thyself, my child, in all thy works, and be discreet in all thy behaviour. 15a And what thou thyself hatest, do to no man. Drink not wine unto drunkenness, and let not drunkenness go with thee on thy way. of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked: dofSee ch. 1.

9 ch. 5. 4 &7.8 & 8.2 & 9. 1, 5 & 11. 2,7 & 12. 15. A ch. 11. 13.

16 And the prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God. 179 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit's eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias Cp. Acts 9. the son of Tobit; and to bind & Asmodeus a the evil spirit; Jbecause it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. The selfsame time did Tobit return and enter into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

18.

i ver. 8.
ich. 6. 11, 12.

* Cp. ch. 1.

14.

See ch. 1. 14.

m Prov. 23. 22.

n See Ex. 20.

In that day Tobit remembered

16c Give

4 concerning the money which he had all thine abundance give alms; and let

& 29. 12, 13. * 1 Thess. 4.

3.

10. 2
& Neh. 13.

27.

* See Lev. 19. 13.

a Cp. Ec-
clus. 31. 15
& Matt. 7.
12
& Luke 6.
31.

Eph. 5. 18.

17.

d See ver. 8.

e Cp. Jer. 16. 7

& Ezek. 24.

17

& Ecclus.
7.33
& 30. 18
& Baruch
6. 32.

4. 9 Ecclus. 9. 14, 15.

not thine eye be envious when thou givest alms. 17e Pour out thy bread on the 4 burial of the just, and give nothing to sinners. 18g Ask counsel of every man that is wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable. 19 And bless My child, when I die, bury me: and the Lord thy God at all times, and ask m despise not thy mother; honour her of him that thy ways may be made Ecclus. 12. all the days of thy life, and do that straight, and that all thy paths and which is pleasing unto her, and grieve counsels may prosper: for every nation her not. 4o Remember, my child, that hath not counsel; but the Lord him- Cp. James she hath seen many dangers for thee, self giveth all good things, and he humwhen thou wast in her womb. When bleth whom he will, as he will. And she is dead, bury her by me in one now, my child, remember my commandDeut. & 11. grave. 5 My child, be mindful of the ments, and let them not be blotted out Lord our God all thy days, and let not of thy mind. 20 And now I shew thee of thy will be set to sin and to transgress the ten talents of silver, which I left in his commandments: do righteousness all trust with Gabael the son of Gabrias at the days of thy life, and follow not the Rages of Media. 21 And fear not, my ways of unrighteousness. 6 For if thou child, because we are made poor: doest the truth, thy doings shall pros-thou hast much wealth, if thou fear

5 unto him, Father, I will do all things, hand, in going in and out before us?

the wegel said unto him, I will go with 6 journey, they came at eventide to