He that takes vengeance will find vengeance from the Lord; And he will surely make firm his sins. Forgive your neighbor the hurt that he has done you; And then your sins will be pardoned when you pray. Man cherisheth anger against man; And does he seek healing from the Lord? Upon a man like himself he has no mercy; And does he make supplication for his own sins? He being himself flesh nourishes wrath: Who will make atonement for his sins? Remember your […]
⛓ Read Sirach 28 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.
The parable's logic — God forgives the one who forgives, and withholds mercy from the unmerciful — is the narrative form of Sirach's teaching: 'Forgive your neighbor the wrong he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray... Does anyone harbor anger against another, and expect healing from the Lord?' The closest extracanonical parallel to the whole pericope.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Forgive your neighbor the wrong... and then your sins will be pardoned' — the reciprocity of judgment/forgiveness in wisdom tradition closely parallels 7:1-2.
Medium confidence