Tombstone Inscriptions (Padua)
1554–1705
Meir Sarfati (d. 1554)
What shall the passive and lackluster do
if the pious and accomplished are swiftly felled by angels?
Quake, nations, and rich and poor fear ye the judgment day.
When the righteous deal rightly with the poor and vagrant,
Their deeds are remembered and brought within the palace of the king.
God’s chosen one shall come to our…
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