The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.
⛓ Read Sirach 27 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of a thought discloses the cultivation of a person's mind' is an almost exact deuterocanonical parallel to 'each tree is known by its own fruit' joined to speech from the heart's abundance. High Volume; nearest Second-Temple antecedent.
High confidence'The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of a thought discloses the heart' is the sapiential source of James's fig-tree/vine and spring analogies, where the source determines the fruit.
Medium confidence'The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so a person's speech discloses the cultivation of his mind.' Striking parallel to 'the tree is known by its fruit' applied to speech ('out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks'). Second Temple wisdom on word-as-fruit.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Ben Sira's maxim that the fruit discloses the cultivation of the heart parallels Luke's 'honest and good heart' that holds the word and bears fruit, a Second-Temple wisdom resonance. Contested; thematic.
Low confidence'The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree, so the expression of a thought discloses the heart' — wisdom maxim that fruit reveals inner character.
Low confidence