Be as a father to the fatherless, And instead of a husband to their mother: So will you be as a son of the Most High, And he will love you more than your mother does.
⛓ Read Sirach 4 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Be a father to orphans, and like a husband to their mother.' Sirach's exhortation to care for orphans and widows resonates with James's standard of pure religion, reinforcing the Wisdom tradition's mercy ethic.
Low confidenceBe like a father to orphans and you will be like a son of the Most High — deuterocanonical sonship-through-mercy parallel to v.45.
Low confidence