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  • The king’s servants, who presided over the doors of the palace, said to him, “Why do you, more than the others, not observe the king’s command?” (Esther 5, 3)

  • The couriers, who had been sent, hurried to complete the king’s command, but the edict was hung up in Susa immediately. And the king and Haman celebrated a feast, while all the Jews in the city were weeping. (Esther 6, 9)

  • “Artaxerxes, the great king from India all the way to Ethiopia, to the generals and leaders of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces that obey our command: greetings, he says. (Esther 13, 1)

  • It shines all around, wherever the will of him that governs them will lead, to anywhere he will command, over the whole face of the earth, (Job 37, 12)

  • Did you, after your birth, command the birth of the sun and show the sunrise its place? (Job 38, 12)

  • Will the eagle lift herself up at your command and make her nest in steep places? (Job 39, 27)

  • Command by your virtue, O God. Confirm in this place, O God, what you have wrought in us. (Psalms 67, 29)

  • And he, being filled with arrogance beyond human means, seemed to himself to command even the waves of the sea and to weigh even the heights of the mountains in a balance. But now, humbled to the ground, he was carried on a stretcher, calling himself as a witness to the manifest virtue of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)

  • Then, at the command of their leader, they moved promptly from there, and together assembled at the town of Dessau. (2 Maccabees 14, 16)

  • And so he said: “I also am powerful upon the earth, so I command arms to be taken up and the king’s plans to be fulfilled.” Nevertheless, he did not succeed in accomplishing his plan. (2 Maccabees 15, 5)

  • Then, in the course of time, iniquity gains strength within this erroneous custom, so that this error has been observed as if it were a law, and this figment has been worshiped at the command of tyrants. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 16)

  • By the knowledge of the Lord, they were arranged, after the sun was made, in keeping with his command. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 8)


“A ingenuidade e’ uma virtude, mas apenas ate certo ponto; ela deve sempre ser acompanhada da prudência. A astúcia e a safadeza, por outro lado, são diabólicas e podem causar muito mal.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina