2. When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thy house; thy children like olive plants, round about thy table.
--- Psalms, 133.
He was certainly a very happy man, and afforded no occasion to have any complaint made of fortune on his account. He it was who alone had three of the most desirable things in the world, - the government of his nation, and the high priesthood, and the gift of prophecy. For the Deity conversed with him, and he was not ignorant of any thing that was to come afterward.
--- Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. [Para. 67]. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
