t Compare with this assertion Luther's definition of the Apocrypna, as ' Bucbcr, so der HeiliKen Schrilt nlcht gleitl gehalteu, und doch uiitzlich uiid gut zu lesen siud.'
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SIRACH (BOOK OF)
SIRACH (BOOK OF)
still more in the Latin Cliiirches. Tn the MSS of the (ireek Bibles it was most commonly jjronped with the other Poetical hooks (see the lists in Swetii's Introduction, pp. 108-214) ; the order being in cod. S: Psalms, Proverbs, Ecel., Cant., Wisd., Sirach, Job ; in B: Ps., Prov., Eccl., Cant., Job, AVisd., Sirach, Esth. ; in AN : Ps., Job, Prov., Eccl., Cant., Wisd., Sirach.
On the question whether Clement of Alexandria had Wisdom and sirach as an .\ppendix to the NT, see, on the one side, Credner-\'olkniar, Gescltichte den nvritpKt. C'anomt, ji. ^87 ion the Btren^fth of Photius, cod. 109, e 3s i)A« (rtutrtoi [of his 'ExXaycct]
rot/ dc/ou tlxd^u TAiv iTio-roXC/v xati 7^v K.xOu>jxui)/ xx'i rov "Exx\y:riitrTi7cevj, and H. Eiokhoff, Das ST del Clnnens (Proj^r. Schleswig, 1900, p. 22); on the other side Zahn, Ge^c/iichte dfs Kaitont; ii. 223.
The 8.5th of the Apostolic Canons orders: l^uOev S^ vfiLf irpouiffTopiiaBii) ^avBdv^iv ii^idv toj>s viovs t^v 1.o^lav ToO 7ro\rna^oi}s Sctpdx-
The Coptic Church counts 6 books of Wisdom (fjdffoi/ios) ; see I. Guidi, ' II cauone biblico della chiesa copta' (Revue bililtmic, x. 2, 166, 169) = Job + Salonione51ibri (Prov., Wisd., Eccl., LaS.ipienza di Brij;or ben Bagy ( = np' p ^lj.^•), Cant.) ; after the Prophets follows La Sapienza di Gesii figlio di Sir.-M'h sr.riba di Salomone.
(3) In the Western Church, too, it became at a very early date common to group these 5 books (Prov., Eccl., Cant., Wisd., and Sirach) together and presently to count them all as Solomonic. One passage from Augustine has been already quoted [§ 1] : in de Doct. Christ, ii. 13 he says of Wisdom and Sirach : ' de quadam similitudine Salomonis esse dicuntur . . . qui tamen quoniam in auctoritatem recipi meruerunt juxta pro- pheticos enumerandi sunt.' Innocent I. (Ep. ad Exsiiperiiim) counts expressly, after Prophetarum libri xvi., 'Salomonis libri v.,' then Psalterium ; 80 also Cassiodorius [de Inst. Div. litt. 14 ; but see Zahn, Gejieh. d. Kan. ii. 270, 271 n. 5, 272), the Council of Carthage, A.D. 397 (can. 47 = 39), the stichometrical list from Freisingen published by C. H. Turner (JThSt ii. 240), while, in the list of the MS of F. Arevalo (I.e. p. 241), in pseudo- Gelasius and in Isidore, ' Salomonis libri iii.' is followed by Wisdom and Sirach (in pseudo-Gelasius in the order Sirach, Wisdom).* The same arrange- ment is found in media?valBiblesand translations — for instance in the famous Wenzel Bible at Vienna (on which see Kurrelmeyer, Amer. Journ. of Phil. .\xi. 62, 69) ; and this custom of placing Sirach and Wisd. in company with Prov., Eccl., and Cant., and of reckoning all five as books of Solomon, became so prevalent that as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries several .separate editions of this group were pulJished, not only in Latin but also in English, either with the express head- ing ' libri Salomonis ' or without it.
See in the Catalo^e of the British Museum 'Bible' (OT) the remark before Haj^ioi^rapha (col. 323, comp. with 71S, 720, where Sirach by mistake is called 'the Book of Wisdom'). Latin editions cont,ainin;r these 6 books are in the Rrit. Mus. from Antw. 1537 ; Paris, 1537 ; Lyons, 1643 ; Paris, 1504 ; Antw. 1591 ; with Psalms, 1G29 ; Psalterium Davidis et Libri sapientiales (without Cant.), Leiden, 1G59. Of English editions the two oldest are : The Bakex of Salomon, namely, Proverbia. Ecclesi- asUs, Sapientia, and Ecclcgianticiis or Jesua the Sonne of Sifraeh (The atory of Belt, whjch is the xiiij chapter of Daniel after the l.atin), E. Whytchuroh, London [1,1407], 8vo (in the copv of the Itr. Mus. a few MS notes by King Henry Tin.; the text follows that of the ISihle of l.iSS ; a reprint 154.'i. lOmo) ; J'he bokes of Salomon, namely, Proverbia, JtCccUsiastett, Cantica Canticorum, Ecdet-iagticus or lesxte the Sonne of Sirrach, W. Bonham, London (1.142 ?], 8vo(text follows Great Bible of 1539 ; another ed. Wyllyam Copland, London, Jan. 1650 (1561], 8vo).
The order in the present English editions of the Apocrypha (1 Es., 2 Es., Tobit, Judith, the Rest of Esther, The Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, etc.)
• On Mommsen's list, the Catalogs Clarmnontanu», the Liber tacramentorum of Bobbio, see Swete, Introd. p. 212 fT. See alBO the Damasine list published by 0. U. Turner, JThSt, i. 667.
seems to go back in the last instance to the German (Zurich) translation of Leo Jud (Ziirlch, 1529, fol. and 8vo ; Strassburg, 1529-30), which separated 'die Bio'hrr die by den alten onder Biblischi gesrhrill't nit rjezelt sind, auch bij den Ebreern nit gefiinden ' from tlierest of the Bible, and arranged them 1-2 Es., Tob., Jud., Bar., Wisd., 'das Buch Ecclesiasticus das man nennen mag die weisen Spriich Jesu des Suns Sirach,' 1-3 Mac, Sus., Bel and Dragon.
The lir.st Greek edition of the Bible, which separated 'AiruKpvtpot. at Trap' E3aLois [sie] 4k tov rCiv d^tOTriaruiV dptd^ou avyKaditXTavTat, is that of Lonicerus (Argentorati, Cephaleus, 1524, 26). Its order is : Tob., Jud.: Bar., Ep. Jer. ; Song of the Three Children, Esdras, 2o0la 2o\o/iai;'Tos, Zo^Ia 'IijiroO vioO -etpdx. The ground of Luther's (1534) arrange- ment (Judith, Wisd. ; Tob., Sirach) becomes clear only from his Prefaces, which are now omitted in almost all German Bibles : the story was made to be followed by the fabula docet.