My brothers! speak the truth
and lie not with lying lips.
Be not like a pomegranate,
whose outer face looks fine.
Its outer face looks fine,
but inside it is full of seed-corns or, rottenness.
Be like wine-jars
full of fragrant wine.
Their outside is clay and pitch,
but inside is fragrant wine.
The message of life cries,
ears of my chosen, hearken to me
Mcl.. Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974),
