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Reardon states that although it is found in every major extant Christian manuscript of the Old Testament, the later exclusion of the Wisdom of Sirach from the Protestant canon has made it one of the little-known gems of Holy Scripture. Composed in Hebrew and translated into Greek in the 2nd century before Christ, it is among the last books of the Old Testament. Sirach represents the more...

This chapter is composed of two sections, each of which is concerned with the most elementary components of wisdom—namely, the fear of the Lord and His faithful service. The very moving first section (vv. 1–6) is addressed to the young person who represents the “audience” presupposed all through this book. In the first verse we have the first instance of the forty-six times this “child” (teknon) is addressed throughout the Wisdom of Sirach. It may be the case that our author has in mind
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