- The Book of
Sirach (/ˈsaɪræk/), also
known as The
Wisdom of
Jesus the Son of Sirach, The
Wisdom of
Jesus son of Eleazar, or
Ecclesiasticus (/ɪˌkliːziˈæstɪkəs/)...
- is said, as
Scripture bears witness;
Pride is the
beginning of all sin. [
Ecclus. 10, 1] But
seven prin****l vices, as its
first progeny,
spring doubtless...
-
would not have
fallen so low. "He that
loves danger shall perish in it" (
Ecclus. 3:27). 2. He had paid too
little attention to our Lord's
warning words:...
-
writings recently discovered. He knew the Psalms,
which he
ascribes to
David (
Ecclus. [Sirach] xlvii. 8, 9), and the Proverbs: "There were
those who
found out...
-
stands for Ecclesiastes, one of 24
books of the
Hebrew Bible.
Distinct from
Ecclus.,
which stands for the
Jewish work of
ethical teachings, Ecclesiasticus...
-
perfect preparation instantaneously, or step by step. For it is
written (
Ecclus. 11:23): "It is easy in the eyes of God on a
sudden to make the poor man...
- 11:36. Ben Sira is the
earliest author to use מקוה as a word for "pool" (
Ecclus 43:20, 48:17), and the
Mishnah is the
earliest text to use it in the sense...
- 18; v. 5,
where "the sons of God" are
identical with "the saints"; comp.
Ecclus. [Sirach] iv. 10). It is
through such
personal relations that the individual...
- the
British s**** and is
greeted by
Ecclus.
Caesar asks his second-in-command,
Brutus Moriartus, to
seize Ecclus and
prepare him for a life of slavery...
- .. [W]ine and
women bring many a man to
misery and make a fool of him (
Ecclus. 19:2; 31:30); so [we
would need to] kill all the
women and pour out all...
