Siracide · WEB-C
Siracide
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The wisdom of the lowly will lift up his head, and make him sit in the midst of great men. Don’t commend a man for his good looks. Don’t abhor a man for his outward appearance. The bee is little among flying creatures, but what it produces is the best of confections. Don’t boast about the clothes you wear, and don’t exalt yourself in the day of honor; for the Lord’s works are wonderful, and his works are hidden among men. Many kings have sat down upon the ground, but one who was never thought of has worn a crown. Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced. Men of renown have been delivered into other men’s hands. Don’t blame before you investigate. Understand first, and then rebuke. Don’t answer before you have heard. Don’t interrupt while someone else is speaking. Don’t argue about a matter that doesn’t concern you. Don’t sit with sinners when they judge. My son, don’t be busy about many matters; for if you meddle much, you will not be unpunished. If you pursue, you will not overtake, and you will not escape by fleeing. There is one who toils, labors, and hurries, and is even more behind. There is one who is sluggish, and needs help, lacking in strength, and who abounds in poverty, but the Lord’s eyes looked upon him for good, and he raised him up from his low condition, and lifted up his head so that many marveled at him. Good things and bad, life and death, poverty and riches, are from the Lord. The Lord’s gift remains with the godly. His good pleasure will prosper forever. One grows rich by his diligence and self-denial, and this is the portion of his reward: when he says, “I have found rest, and now I will eat of my goods!” he doesn’t know how much time will pass until he leaves them to others and dies. Be steadfast in your covenant and be doing it, and grow old in your work. Don’t marvel at the works of a sinner, but trust the Lord and stay in your labor; for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord to swiftly and suddenly make a poor man rich. The Lord’s blessing is in the reward of the godly. He makes his blessing flourish in an hour that comes swiftly. Don’t say, “What use is there of me? What further good things can be mine?” Don’t say, “I have enough. What harm could happen to me now?” In the day of good things, bad things are forgotten. In the day of bad things, a man will not remember things that are good. For it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord to reward a man in the day of death according to his ways. The affliction of an hour causes delights to be forgotten. In the end, a man’s deeds are revealed. Call no man happy before his death. A man will be known in his children. Don’t bring every man into your house, for many are the tricks of a deceitful man. Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the heart of a proud man. Like a spy, he looks for your weakness. For he lies in wait to turn things that are good into evil, and assigns blame in things that are praiseworthy. From a spark of fire, a heap of many coals is kindled, and a sinful man lies in wait to shed blood. Take heed of an evil-doer, for he plans wicked things, lest perhaps he ruin your reputation forever. Receive a stranger into your house, and he will distract you with arguments and estrange you from your own family.
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Notes · Haydock (1859, domaine public)Notes : 18
Notes en anglais Commentaire catholique du XIXᵉ siècle du P. George Leo Haydock, tel qu’il a été publié.
Ces notes gardent les polémiques de leur époque : certaines parlent durement du peuple juif ou d'autres chrétiens. L'Église enseigne autrement aujourd'hui. On ne peut imputer au peuple juif la mort du Christ (Nostra Aetate 4 ; Catéchisme 597–598), et les chrétiens des autres communautés sont nos frères dans le Seigneur (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). L'unité des chrétiens
Siracide 11:1
Ver. 1. Men. Merit is preferable to high birth, as it surmounts difficulties. C. ---
Those who humble themselves, like Daniel, or fall under the oppression of others unjustly, as Joseph did, shall be exalted by God. W.
↑ 1Siracide 11:2
Ver. 2. Look. "The most robust is farthest removed from wisdom." Cicero. ---
The beauty of the soul must be regarded. S. Amb. Virg. 3. C.
Forma bonum fragile est, quantumque accedit ad annos
Fit minor, et spatio carpitur ipsa suo. Ovid, Art. 2.
↑ 2Siracide 11:3
Ver. 3. Sweetness. Honey was more esteemed before sugar became common.
As the little bee produces such sweetness, so the less beautiful often by their abilities surpass the comely.
↑ 3Siracide 11:5
Ver. 5. Throne. Gr. "pavement." Dionysius II. tyrant of Syracuse, was forced to turn schoolmaster at Corinth. C. --- Crown. Abdalonymus, a gardener, was placed on the throne of Sidon; (Curt. 4.) and several Roman emperors had been of the meanest condition. Pliny xxxv. 18.
David was a shepherd.
↑ 5Siracide 11:6
Ver. 6. Others, like Samson, Sedecias, Bajazet, &c.
↑ 6Siracide 11:7
Ver. 7. Man, as David did Miphiboseth. 2 K. xvi. 4. Constantine the Great grieved for having put his son Crispus to death on too weak evidence; and Theodosius repented for the sentence he had rashly passed on the inhabitants of Thessalonica. Even though the sentence should happen to be just, it would be wrong to pronounce it too hastily.
↑ 7Siracide 11:8
Ver. 8. Discourse. This is a mark of impertinence. Prov. xviii. 13. C. --- Let others finish their sentence, and wait if there be any elder or better informed to speak. W.
↑ 8Siracide 11:10
Ver. 10. Escape. God will grant thee riches without so much solicitude (Lyran.) or rather meddle not with too many things, as that is the way to succeed in none, and destroys all repose.
↑ 10Siracide 11:16
Ver. 16. Sinners. They are all born in sin. But some appear to have worse dispositions than others. Ps. lvii. 4. C. --- God is not the author of iniquity. H. ---
He punishes in order to save, though he be offended by the wicked choice of man. C. --- Blindness of heart and obduracy are punishments of sin. W.
↑ 16Siracide 11:17
Ver. 17. Ever. All things work together for the good of the elect. Rom. viii. 8. H.
--- God never abandons first. Trid. Ses. vii. 11. --- The wicked often abuse graces. C.
↑ 17Siracide 11:21
Ver. 21. Covenant. All the Israelites partook in covenants entered into between God and their fathers, which became their own by circumcision, as we become entitled to the alliance of Christ by baptism.
↑ 21Siracide 11:22
Ver. 22. Place. If God bestow not riches, it may be for thy advantage.
↑ 22Siracide 11:24
Ver. 24. Fruit. Prosperity was a sign of God's favour, under the old law. Now nothing is more equivocal, and the poor are declared blessed. C.
↑ 24Siracide 11:26
Ver. 26. Myself. Neither the poor nor the rich can be independent of God. H. ---
Perhaps no one does to hold this language. But many act as if they thought themselves gods, and some have claimed divine honours. 4 K. xviii. 34. Is. xiv.
13. Ezec. xxix. 3.
↑ 26Siracide 11:28
Ver. 28. Death, in old age, (Grot.) or rather after the soul's departure. The pagans had not this consolation. Their hopes were confined to the earth; and as they saw many honest people miserable, they introduced a chimerical idea of happiness, consisting in virtue alone. The views of Christians are chiefly bent on future rewards.
↑ 28Siracide 11:29
Ver. 29. Hour. The last of life. It demonstrates the vanity of past pleasures.
Even a momentary toothache will banish the recollection of such delights.
↑ 29Siracide 11:30
Ver. 30. Children. If they take wicked ways, it is a stain on their father's memory; and though the latter were blameless, it must greatly disturb their repose. C. --- Children may here denote the works of man, which can only then be pronounced perfect, when he is incapable of falling from the state of virtue.
H.
Dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet. Metam. iii.
--- Solon inculcated this truth to Crœsus, and when the latter was about to be burnt to death by Cyrus, he called thrice upon Solon's name; the reason of which being told the conqueror, he took pity on the fallen king, and treated him with great respect. Laert. 1. Plut. in Solon --- These sages only regarded the goods of this life. But the Christian's real happiness commences after death.
Mors...gratio missionis est. S. Amb. Mort. viii.
↑ 30Siracide 11:36
Ver. 36. Own. So Herod destroyed his wife's family, and Paris stole Helen. C.
↑ 36Licence: 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. · Crédits et licences