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Ben Sira 44:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Ben Sira 44:1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 44
Praise of Israel’s Great Ancestors[a]
1 I will now praise the godly,
our ancestors, in their own time,[b]
Footnotes
- 44:1–50:24 As in the previous section God’s glory shone forth in the works of nature, so in these chapters it is revealed through the history of God’s people as seen in the lives of their ancestors, prophets, priests, and rulers. The example of these great people, whose virtues are recalled here, constitutes a high point of Ben Sira’s teaching.
- 44:1–15 The reader is here introduced to those people of Israel, later mentioned by name, who through various achievements and beneficial social activities have acquired great renown (vv. 1–8, 14–15); and also to those who, though forgotten, endure through the fruit of their virtues and through their families because of God’s covenant with them (vv. 9–15).
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