Category: APOCRYPHA (Geneva 1560)

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 15 & 16

    Salomon 15 The voice of the faithful, praising the mercy of God by whose grace they serve not idols. BUT thou, o our God, are gracious and true, long suffering, and govern all things by mercy. Though we sin, yet are we thine: for we know thy power: but we sin not, knowing that we…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 13 & 14

    Salomon 13 1 All things be vain, except the knowledge of God. 10 Idolaters and idols are mocked. SURELY all men are vain by nature, and are ignorant of God, and could not know him that is, by the good things that are seen, neither consider by the works of the work master. But they…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 11 & 12

    Salomon 11 2 The miracles done for Israel. 13 The vengeance of sinners. 28 The great power and mercy of God. SHE prospered their works in the hands of thine holy Prophet. They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched their tents in place where there lay no way. They stood against…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 9 & 10

    Salomon 9 A praise of Salomon to obtain wisdom. O God of fathers, and Lord of mercy, which hast made all things with thy word, And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which thou hast made, And govern the world according to equity and righteousness, and execute judgment…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 7 & 8

    Salomon 7 Wisdom ought to be preserved above all things. I Myself am also mortal and a man like all other, and am come of him that was first made of the earth. And in my mother’s womb was I fashioned to be flesh in ten months: I was brought together into the blood of…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 5 & 6

    Salomon 5 2 The constantness of the righteous before their persecutors. 14 The hope of the unfaithful is vain. 15 The blessedness of the saints and godly. THEN shall the righteous stand in great boldness before the face of such as have tormented him, and taken away his labors. When they see him, they shall…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 3 & 4

    Salomon 3 2 The conversation and assurance of the righteous. 7 The rewards of the faithful. 11 Who are miserable. BUT the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them. In the sight of the unwise they appeared to die, and their end was thought grievous, And…

  • THE WISDOM OF SALOMON 1 & 2

    Salomon 1 2 How we ought to search and inquire after God. 2 Who be those that find him. 5 The Holy Ghost. 8-11 We ought to flee from backbiting and murmuring. 12 Whereof death comes. 15 Righteousness and unrighteousness. LOVE righteousness, ye that be Judges of the earth: think reverently of the Lord, and…

  • ESTHER 13 & 14

    Esther 13 1 The copies of the letters of Artaxerxes against the Jews. 8 The prayer of Mardocheus. THE copy of the letters was this, The great King Artaxerxes writes these things to the princes and governors that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces. When I…

  • ESTHER 10-12

    Certain portions of the story of Ester, which are fond in some Greek and Latin translations. Esther 10 Which follow the tenth chapter. WHEN Mardocheus said, God hath done these things. For I remember a dream, which I saw concerning these matters, and there was nothing thereof omitted. A little fountain which became a flood,…