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A25805	The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original.; Letter of Aristeas.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1685 (1685)	Wing A3682; ESTC R12295	60,349	222

Further because it is our desire they and all others of their Nation spread and scattered throughout the Universe may be thankful for our favours we have resolved to cause your Law Written in Hebrew Letters to be Translated into the Greek Language and that our Royal Library be adorned therewith as it is with other Books you will do well then as a thing very agreeable to us and answering our Design and Intention if you elect out of every Tribe or Line of your Nation six of the most Aged Persons and such as shall be found of the best Breeding and Sufficience and of greatest Authority in the Service of the Law and that have the best Style in Writing to make this Translation for so will the Truth thereof be better and more easily gathered if the Set of Interpreters be men of mature Judgement and well exercised in the Law well weighing that to effect well and worthily such an Interpretation and Translation it is needful there should be Pains curious Study and Reflection which may be found in the endeavours of Many who are more sharp more subtile and more discerning than One alone Moreover we judge that by the accomplishing so great a work there will redound to us great Honour and Glory For this cause therefore we have sent unto you Andrea Captain of the Guard and Aristeus men of Honourable place in our Court who have Commission on our part to present you with Jewels for your sacrifices and an Hundred Talents of Silver for other uses Herein you will give us great content and pleasure and express a courtesie resenting Amity if you have need of any thing to require it for we will not fail to furnish and accommodate you therewith immediately To which Epistle Eleazar answered as follows Eleazar the High Priest to King Ptolomeus Philadelphus our most illustrious Friend IF you are well Sir and the Queen Arsinoe and my Lady your Sister and my Lords your Children God be praised for health is a thing to be desired and acknowledged as due unto him who is Giver thereof As for us we are in good prosperity praised be the Giver We have received your Letters which brought us great Content by reason of your Counsel Enterprise and Design as also for the love and good will you bear us Having received them we made a great Assembly of the People to whom in a long Discourse we have made known your Liberality towards our Nation and exposed to view your Presents and Oblations to the end they should understand your holy Affection and Piety towards our God Shewing publickly the twenty Vessels and Viols of Gold the thirty of Silver which you have sent the five cups of Gold with the Table of proportion and the hundred Talents of Silver to be employed for the Victims and other uses requisite to the Priests Which Jewels were to us presented by Andrea one of your Princes and Aristeus Persons truly worthy of note both for external beauty and excellency of Behaviour and condition as also rare Knowledge briefly Lords worthy in all things of your Conversation and Justice by whom we have been fully informed of your will and intention agreeing with the Tenour of your Letters Wherefore we will wholly set our selves to endeavour to accomplish your desire For although it be a difficult thing to bring well to perfect effect yet for the Times to come it will be an Argument of our great Confederation and Amity For you have obliged our Citizens with a great and as it were an in inestimable Beneficence Whereupon we have offered to God the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving for you your Sister Children and Friends and the whole multitude of people hath prayed to God for your Prosperity and that it will please him to address your affection in all your Acts and that God the Ruler of all things will make your Realm to flourish and increase in Peace and Glory And that the Translation of the Sacred Law may redound unto your Profit and Advantage After these Sacrifices were accomplished all the People being together we chose Persons of better Rank and men of Honour and of good Life and Report being Six of every Tribe or Line which we have sent to you with the Holy Law which was left us by the Inspired Writer Moses Be it your pleasure Sir to return them us after the Translation of the Books shall be compleated These are the Names of those that were chosen from all the Lines and Tribes of the Jews to go to Aegypt to make the first Translation of the Holy Bible or Law of Moses Of the first Tribe JOsephus Ezechias Zacharias Ioannes Ezechias Heliseus Of the second Iudas Simon Somoelus Adeus Mathias Eschemias Of the third Nehemias Iosephus Theodosius Baseas Ornias Dacis Of the fourth Ionathas Auxeus Heliseus Annanias Chebrias Sacheus Of the fifth Iasacus Iacobus Iesus Cabateus Simon Leuis Of the sixth Iudas Iosephus Simon Zacharias Somelus Selemias Of the seventh Sabbatens Iason Iesus Theodotus Ioannes Ionathas The eighth Theodosius Iason Iesus Theodotus Ioannes Ionathas The ninth Theophilus Abrahamus Arsamus Iason Endemias Danielus The tenth Hieremias Eleazarus Zacharias Baneas Helisius Datheus The eleventh Samuel Iosephus Iudas Ioathes Chabel Desitheus The twelfth Isaelus Ioannes Theodosius Arsamenus Abiethas Ezecelus Number of all 72. Such was the Answer to the Letters of the King NOw I will declare to you the most succinctly I can possible the beauty and workmanship of the things we found in Ierusalem being with Eleazar and those also which were sent to him for all was wrought with singular Art and of most exquisite beauty the King being therein so careful and intent to per●orm abundantly all that was necessary for finishing so extraordinary Work that of his own proper motion he went and came visiting every one of the Master-workmen and Goldsmiths whom he kept so close to their business that he permitted them no idle time for Sport or Debauches Of the Presents sent unto Eleazer Chief Priest of the Jews by King Ptolomeus Philadelphus And first of the Table of Gold IT behoveth then that first we describe the Table for it was a work of admirable lustre The King desiring to shew therein a Master-piece of Work wherefore he demanded the measure and dimension of the Table which was in the Temple of Ierusalem and the ornaments of the same When he knew the measure he asked if they would receive a greater And being answered by some of the Priests and others if there where no let a greater might have place there The King then replyed that h● intended to give one five times bigger than that was there provided that might not be inconvenient for the Priests by its disproportionable quantity Further consideration ought not only to be had of the Receit and Capacity of the Place but also of its Accommodation to the Sacrifices thereon to be prepared and that he was not without consideration that the Iews had not made

this Assurance that this very Day shall be to us the Day that all the Days of our Life we will hold Great and Memorable and shall be solemnized every Year with Feasting in perpetual Memory of your Visit as also of our Victory which we obtained this day against Antigonus at Sea wherefore it is our Will that this very Day you solace your selves in Feasting with us Forthwith he required the Princes should be invited Amongst whom he did me the Honour to make me to be seated Moreover he caused to be exposed to view all the rich Furniture wherewith the Pallace Royal was upon great Festivals used to be decked Likewise he commanded they should fit up Lodgings near to the Castle in the most splendid Manner they could And in like manner the King ordered that the Feasts should be set out in the most Sumptuous and Magnificent Fashion that was possible And then the King enjoyned Nicanor his chief Physitian to bid Dorothea Controuler of the House as from the Will and Pleasure of his Majesty that he should and that with all Diligence deliver out all things necessary for every one of the Doctors as well for their Accommodation as for the Furniture of their Lodgings and that without fail as from the Ordinance and Command of the King which was forthwith accomplished with great dispatch by many Hands Conformable to the usage of great Cities when they prepare to make great Feasts and publick Banquetting whenas there are selected Officers that are appointed to furnish every one according to his Post and Station Such were the Appointments of the King who was not wanting to assist in Person and his People to speak Truth were such as spared for no Labour or Pains to execute his Orders for with all Alacrity and Cheerfulness they provided whatever was necessary and requisite putting in execution what the King required with glad and chearful Hearts Thus was the Kings Will exactly and freely comply'd with in this and all other Regards whatever For Dorothea was very Franck and Bountiful and very Industrious in his Charge and Employment which was principally to have a due regard to the accommodating these great and venerable Men not employing what had been formerly Allotted to such Uses but fresh and valuable Stuffs sparing nothing that was in his Power He assigned every one of them his Couch of Ease besides his Bed with fair Carpets as the King had commanded Moreover the King required the half of them should be placed and seated at the Table so as that they might front his Person and the other half distributed on each side his Chair of State● Omitting nothing which any way might do them Honour or contribute to their utmost Content and Satisfaction After the Seats of the Table were duly fixed and proportioned for each the Kings command to Dorothea was that all those who came from Iudea should have Victuals distributed and such as they Affect after the Usage of their Country and Appointment of their Law Nevertheless that they should want for no Plenty or Variety as also for performing their Oblations Vows and Sacrifices according to the Custom of their Nation After all these Ceremonies the King besought one of them named Eleazar the most Aged of all those that came with us to make his Orisons Who as he was very Venerable being then risen from his Seat● began in this manner The Prayer of Eleazar God Almighty fill thee O King with all Goodness and give Grace to thy Wife and to thy Children and that thy plenty may be Permanent without Alteration or Change all the course of thy Life and theirs Hardly had he ended this Prayer but there followed a Noise and Acclamation of Joy with a pleasant Murmur and Applause that lasted a pretty while All things being thus disposed and prepared for Jollity all the Company betook themselves to make good Chear and those who waited on the Table repaired readily to their several Posts which the Controuler had given them in Charge Amongst those who served at the Table were the Children of the King and all the most considerable Peers and Lords The Answers of the Jewish Elders to the Questions propounded by King Ptolomeus Philadelphus WHen the time came and a fit Opportunity offered for Discourse the King by certain Pauses began to ask them one by one in order several Questions as they were marshall'd at his Table according to Seniority To him therefore that was set uppermost he made this Question First Question How he should conserve his Kingdom entire and safe to the end The Resolution AFter the Doctor had a little studied he answered You shall great King dispose the Estate of your Kingdom well and wisely if in all and by all you propose to your self the Example of the Benignity and Indulgence of God for your Imitation using Patience and Gentleness raising to Honour those that are Worthy and bringing down the haughty and ambitious proud Spirits to Repentance and a true Sense of themselves by giving them due Example of Humanity Affability and fairness of Access To the other Second Question How he might bring all things justly to a fair Issue The Resolution IF in all things answered he great King you have your Eyes open and Thoughts fixt upon your Actions watching over your self in all things you will do nothing that will not be well done and if you consider that a true Sense of our selves and right Reason is no other than the Gift of God of whom we always ought to have the Fear before our Eyes and present to all our Operations for that is the means never to go astray To the other Third Question How he should have Friends agreeable to him The Resolution IF they know Great King that you have no Thoughts but what are employed upon that which is just and profitable and conducing to the publick Good and that you are excited to it by considering how God supplies the Wants of Mankind providing Sustenance for the Necessities of the Body and for the Necessities of Life bodily Health and other Gifts and Abilities Fourth Question How he should acquire and conserve a solid Reputation in expediting of Affairs in doing Publick Iustice and punishing Offenders The Resolution IF you carry your self as Reason and Equity requires indifferent to every ones Right and if you proceed not against Malefactors according to your uncontroulable Power or with Partiality You may get Knowledge in this Point if you bear in Mind the Providence and wise Disposal of God who granteth the Requests and Petitions of those are worthy and to the Malefactors and Vicious he shews them that he denies nothing but what is hurtful and which appears such by their own Experience or by the Admonitions and Terrors of Dreams also he punisheth not the Sins of Men neither in proportion to their great Demerits nor to his Almighty Power but rather courts their Amendment sweetly winning them by mild and gentle Methods To the