Forgive your neighbor the hurt that he has done you; And then your sins will be pardoned when you pray.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"Forgive your neighbor the wrong he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray" is the closest Second-Temple parallel to the reciprocal forgiveness clause. The conditional structure (forgive others / be forgiven) coheres tightly with Luke 11:4.
Medium confidence'Forgive your neighbor the wrong he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray' — a remarkably close Second Temple parallel to the reciprocal forgiveness of the fifth petition and vv.14-15.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Jesus' demand to forgive while praying so the Father may forgive (11:25) closely tracks Ben Sira's 'Forgive thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done unto thee, so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest.' The deuterocanonical maxim's near-identical conditional reciprocity gives this strong availability and coherence as a Second-Temple background.
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