All wisdom comes from the Lord, And is with him forever. The sand of the seas, and the drops of rain, And the days of eternity, who shall count? The height of the heaven, and the breadth of the earth, And the deep, and wisdom, who shall search them out? Wisdom has been created before all things, And the understanding of prudence from everlasting. To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed? And who has known her shrewd counsels? There is one wise, […]
⛓ Read Sirach 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Sirach affirms that all wisdom is from the Lord, who 'lavished her upon those who love him.' The generosity of God in giving wisdom, central to James 1:5, is a hallmark of Sirach's opening hymn to wisdom.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Ben Sira's teaching that all wisdom is from the Lord and poured out on the faithful is the wider sapiential horizon for James's heavenly wisdom.
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