They were also speaking about his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Toḇ
because he was a hireling – that I should be afraid, and do so, and shall sin, and so they could give me an evil name, to reproach me.
For many in Yehuḏ
For all of them were making us afraid, saying, “Let their hands slacken for the work, and it not be done.” But now, make my hands strong.
And it came to be, when the wall was rebuilt, that I set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and the Lĕ
Those who forsake the Torah praise the wrong, Those who guard the Torah strive with them.
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
“It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness of it, that its works are wicked.
They are of the world, therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.