A quotation from The Bible I’m just a human like everyone else. I’m a descendant of the first person who was created out of earth. My flesh was molded into shape during the time that I was in my mother’s womb. Over the course of ten months, I took shape from her blood, built up out of a man’s seed and a night of pleasure. When I was born, I gulped in the same air as everyone else. I dropped out onto the same earth that all people share. I let out my first cry that was just like the sound anyone else makes. I was nurtured by snug clothes and good care. No king has ever begun life any differently. There’s only one way into life for everyone, and only one way out as well.   [Εἰμὶ μὲν κἀγὼ θνητὸς ἄνθρωπος ἴσος ἅπασιν καὶ γηγενοῦς ἀπόγονος πρωτοπλάστου· καὶ ἐν κοιλίᾳ μητρὸς ἐγλύφην σὰρξ δεκαμηνιαίῳ χρόνῳ παγεὶς ἐν αἵματι ἐκ σπέρματος ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἡδονῆς ὕπνῳ συνελθούσης. καὶ ἐγὼ δὲ γενόμενος ἔσπασα τὸν κοινὸν ἀέρα καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ὁμοιοπαθῆ κατέπεσον γῆν πρώτην φωνὴν τὴν ὁμοίαν πᾶσιν ἴσα κλαίων· ἐν σπαργάνοις ἀνετράφην καὶ φροντίσιν. οὐδεὶς γὰρ βασιλέων ἑτέραν ἔσχεν γενέσεως ἀρχήν, μία δὲ πάντων εἴσοδος εἰς τὸν βίον ἔξοδός τε ἴση.]The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals) Book 22a. Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon) 7: 1ff (Wis 7:1–6) [tr. CEB (2011)] More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/86614/ #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #apocrypha #wisdomofsolomon #oldtestament #birth #death #equality #humancondition #humannature #humanity #kings #mortality