The Testament Of Benjamin
1926 anthology, complete selected publisher reading text
Rutherford H. Platt
29 And through them he shall go to and fro as Jacob my father, saying: He shall fill up that which lacketh of thy tribe.
30 And when he had said these things he stretched out his feet.
31 And died in a beautiful and good sleep.
32 And his sons did as he had enjoined them, and they took up his body and buried it in Hebron with his fathers.
33 And the number of the days of his life was a hundred and twenty-five years.
THE END
Footnotes
Source notes
[1] Cf. “Rapid Transit.”
[2] Compare The Second Book of Adam and Eve. Chap. XX.
[3] A important comparison of God and Zeus.
[4] A cubit is 18 inches.
[5] A furlong is 1/8 mile (i. e. 220 yards).
[6] This account of the measures adopted at Alexandria to prevent the depopulation of the countryside through migrations into the city is an interesting revelation that the question was as acute 2000 years ago as it is today.
[7] Compare this quaint idea with 1 Corinthians, IX, 9.
[8] Compare this attitude toward criminals with that of the so-called modern humanitarian view. Also Bee Chapter VIII. 11.
[9] Written about 150 B. C.!
[10] There were foreign residents in those days too.
[11] See The Testament of Joseph, page 260.
[12] Cf. Psalms CXLI. 4.
[13] Cf. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
[14] Cf. 2 Timothy, IV, 17.
[15] Compare this account of Nadan’s revelry and his beating of the servants with Matthew XXIV. 48-51 and Luke XII. 43-46. You will see that the language of Ahikar has colored one of our Lord’s parables.
[16] Compare the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke XV. 19.
[17] See The Second Book of Adam and Eve, Chapter XX
[18] Even our present day slang is centuries old.