...nephew of Jesus, [the Son of Sirach2,] do plainly enough signify: "After that my grandfather Jesus had given himself to the reading of the Law and the Prophets...other books of our fathers, and had gotten therein sufficient judgment, he purposed also to write something pertaining to learning and wisdom, to the...

...guileless was enabled to acknowledge our Lord at once as the King of Israel. f Joshua Ben Sirach after "be had much given himself to the reading of the law and the prophets, and other books of his fathers, "J felt himself enabled to comment upon them ; yet not of himself alone, for he acknowledges...

...distinctly acknowledged in the prologue to Ecclesiasticus, where the author, Jesus the son of Sirach, speaks of "the law, and the prophets, and other books of our fathers," and again of "the law, and the prophets, and the rest of the books." The miscellaneous character of the...

...grandfather's work, mentions a threefold division of the Scriptures. He says that his grandfather Jesus " had given himself to the reading of the Law and the Prophets, and the other books of our fathers" (TWV aXXwv irarpiW /3</3AiW). Hence about 180 BC, the latest probable...

...refuted by the Prologue which is prefixed to the book. It is there stated that the original author, " when he had much given himself to the reading of the Law and the Prophets and other books of our (Jewish) fathers, and had gotten therein good judgment, was drawn on also himself to write something...

...the prophets, and by the others that have followed in their steps . . . my grandfather Jesus, having much given himself to the reading of the law, and the prophets, and the other books of our fathers, and having gained great familiarity therein, was drawn on also himself...

...they that desire to learn be able to profit them which are without, both by speaking and writing ; my grandfather Jesus, when he had much given himself...the reading of the law, and the prophets, and OTHER HOOKS OF OUR FATIIEKS, and had gotten therein good judgment, was drawn on also himself to write something...

...found in the Prologue to the Book of Ecclesiasticus, where we are told that Jesus, the son of Sirac, "had much given himself to the reading of the law,...and the prophets, and other books of our fathers." In 2 Mace. ii. 13 we are told how Nehemiah, " founding a library, gathered together the acts of the...

...who followed after them;" or, as some, "who have followed in their steps." In the second, he names "the law and the prophets and other books of our Fathers;" and in the third, "But the law itself and the prophets and the rest of the books," etc. This language seems...

...translator to his version certainly ascribes the work to one author. "My grandfather Jesus," he says, "who had much given himself to the reading of the law, and the prophets, and the other books of our fathers,2 and had gotten good practice therein, was drawn on also himself to...