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Title: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on January 06, 2021, 07:19:33 PM
Sirach Chapter 1 Verse 16     
Wisdom's garland is fear of the Lord,   
with blossoms of peace and perfect health.   
 
The mention of blossoms may refer to Wisdom as being the perfect bouquet.   
 
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Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on January 20, 2021, 06:22:22 PM
Sirach Chapter 12 Verse 1   
If you mean to do a kindness, choose the right person, then your good deeds will not be wasted.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on July 28, 2021, 07:18:53 PM
Sirach Chapter 6 Verse 31   
You will wear her (Wisdom) as your robe of glory,   
bear her as your splendid crown.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: Shin on July 28, 2021, 09:53:16 PM
What a beautiful virtue Wisdom is.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on July 25, 2022, 07:19:57 PM
The Book of Sirach is referred to as The Book of Ecclesiasticus.   
It is accepted as part of the Canon by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and most of Oriental Orthodox Christians.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on July 26, 2022, 06:26:46 PM
Sirach Chapter 8 Verse 9   
Reject not the tradition of old men   
which they have learned from their fathers;     
From it you will obtain the knowledge   
how to answer in time of need.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: Benedict on July 26, 2022, 09:18:27 PM
Sirach 1:1-3 RSVCE

1 All wisdom comes from the Lord
    and is with him for ever.
2 The sand of the sea, the drops of rain,
    and the days of eternity—who can count them?
3 The height of heaven, the breadth of the earth,
    the abyss, and wisdom—who can search them out?


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on July 27, 2022, 07:21:43 PM
Sirach Chapter 42 Verses 21-22     
Perennial is his (The Lord God's) almighty wisdom;     
he is from all eternity one and the same,   
With nothing added, nothing taken away;   
no need of a counselor for him!


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on July 28, 2022, 06:42:12 PM
Sirach Chapter 18 Verse 26     
Before morning and evening the weather changes;     
before the Lord all things are fleeting.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on October 16, 2024, 06:59:03 PM
Sirach Chapter 10 Verse 14   
The Lord has turned mighty princes off their thrones and seated the humble there instead.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: Shin on October 16, 2024, 09:35:02 PM
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Let it be so again soon I pray, O Lord, and Christendom be restored and Communism and all its fruits vanished from the face of the earth like ash in the wind. Amen.


Title: Re: The Book of Sirach
Post by: CyrilSebastian on October 17, 2024, 06:52:49 PM
Sirach Chapter 14 Verse 3   
Wealth is not the right thing for the riggardly, and what use are possessions to the covetous?