Lose your money for a brother and a friend; And let it not rust under the stone to be lost. Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High; And it shall profit you more than gold. Shut up alms in your store-chambers; And it shall deliver you out of all affliction:
⛓ Read Sirach 29 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.
'Lay up your treasure according to the commandments... store up almsgiving in your treasuries, and it will rescue you from every misfortune' — the most direct Second Temple parallel to laying up treasure in heaven through righteous use of wealth.
Medium confidenceBen Sira urges 'lay up thy treasure according to the commandments... it shall bring thee more profit than gold,' directly paralleling treasure-in-heaven-through-almsgiving.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Ben Sira's fuller counsel to spend silver on a brother and store up almsgiving in the chambers of the Most High undergirds the whole purse-that-does-not-grow-old image. Recurrence within Sirach's treasure theology strengthens the allusion.
Medium confidence