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Sirach
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He who keeps the law multiplies offerings. He who heeds the commandments sacrifices a peace offering. He who returns a kindness offers fine flour. He who gives alms sacrifices a thank offering. To depart from wickedness pleases the Lord. To depart from unrighteousness is an atoning sacrifice. See that you don’t appear in the presence of the Lord empty. For all these things are done because of the commandment. The offering of the righteous enriches the altar. The sweet fragrance of it is before the Most High. The sacrifice of a righteous man is acceptable. It won’t be forgotten. Glorify the Lord with generosity. Don’t reduce the first fruits of your hands. In every gift show a cheerful countenance, And dedicate your tithe with gladness. Give to the Most High according as he has given. As your hand has found, give generously. For the Lord repays, and he will repay you sevenfold. Don’t plan to bribe him with gifts, for he will not receive them. Don’t set your mind on an unrighteous sacrifice, For the Lord is the judge, and with him is no respect of persons. He won’t accept any person against a poor man. He will listen to the prayer of him who is wronged. He will in no way despise the supplication of the fatherless or the widow, when she pours out her tale. Don’t the tears of the widow run down her cheek? Isn’t her cry against him who has caused them to fall? He who serves God according to his good pleasure will be accepted. His supplication will reach to the clouds. The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds. until it comes near, he will not be comforted. He won’t depart until the Most High visits and he judges righteously and executes judgment. And the Lord will not be slack, neither will he be patient toward them, until he has crushed the loins of the unmerciful. He will repay vengeance to the heathen until he has taken away the multitude of the arrogant and broken in pieces the sceptres of the unrighteous, until he has rendered to every man according to his deeds, and repaid the works of men according to their plans, until he has judged the cause of his people, and he will make them rejoice in his mercy. Mercy is as welcome in the time of his affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Sirach 35:1
Ver. 1. Offerings. He cannot otherwise observe the law. H. --- Virtue is the most acceptable sacrifice. C. --- The sacrifices of penance, of justice, and of praise, are to be preferred before all external ones. W.
↑ 1Sirach 35:2
Ver. 2. And to. Gr. (4.) "He," &c. H. --- The peace-offering and that for sin, as well as the oblation of fine flour and of praise, (which is the most perfect of all) are noticed. C. --- External sacrifice must not be neglected. W.
↑ 2Sirach 35:4
Ver. 4. Sacrifice. Gr. adds, "of praise." H. --- This was the true spirit of the law.
C.
↑ 4Sirach 35:6
Ver. 6. Lord. The poor, who present a virtuous heart, are more acceptable than the rich, who are buried in sin, though the latter may offer the most splendid sacrifices. H. --- God requires that all should do according to their abilities. If they have nothing, they must fulfill the commandments, and he will be satisfied. Some have inferred from Ex. xxiii. 16. that the poor were rejected.
But the meaning of the law is here explained. C.
↑ 6Sirach 35:10
Ver. 10. Heart. Lit. "mind." Gr. "eye," (H.) free from avarice. 2 Cor. ix. 7.
↑ 10Sirach 35:11
Ver. 11. Sanctify: "set apart" for the use of the ministers, and of the temple. C.
--- God will reward thee much more. W.
↑ 11Sirach 35:14
Ver. 14. Wicked; defective. Lev. xxii. 21. Mal. i. 7. Gr. "curtailed, or ill-acquired,"
(C.) or "do not bribe" God; ( dorokopei. Grot.) as the word is used 2 Mac. God will not regard our gifts, to let our offences escape punishment. Is. xlii. 1. C.
↑ 14Sirach 35:19
Ver. 19. For, &c. is not in Greek. God will protect the defenceless. H.
↑ 19Sirach 35:21
Ver. 21. He, or "it." C. --- Prayer is personified, and presents itself before God.
↑ 21Sirach 35:22
Ver. 22. Them, the Gentiles, &c. v. 23. Gr. "will not delay to punish them, till he crush the loins of the unmerciful. And," &c. H.
↑ 22Sirach 35:23
Ver. 23. Unjust Egyptians, Syrians, and Greeks, who then oppressed the Jews.
↑ 23Sirach 35:24
Ver. 24. Adam, who was not spared. C. --- Gr. "of men and their desires." H. ---
Our version seems to be taken from the Heb. D. --- Adam sometimes denotes any man. M.
↑ 24Sirach 35:26
Ver. 26. The. Gr. "mercy is beautiful," &c. Ps. ix. 10. H.
↑ 26License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses