Note.— I75E OF THE BOOK IN TBE Christian Cbubch—OL Daubnev, The Use of the Apocr. in the Christian Church (London, 1900). For the use of Sirach in NT, he comjiarea about 20 passages, e.g. Mt fiH with 24"-, 61" with 29'3, lu-"^ with 32'-^. On Lk 117 Eeni^el quoted iS^^ and remarked: *Minime proletarium esse SiraL-idaj librum, convenientia eius cum an^eli sermone docet." For the Kpistle of James, J. R Mayor (lsy7) collected thirty-two resemblances to Sirtwsh. The qutsiion whether St. Paul did not quote from the Hebrew Sirach In 1 Co 15-"' has been raised by Miiller (' zam Sirachproblem,' in the Orientalistische Literaturzcitung, June 1900).
Early Christian writers made such extensive use of Wisdom, Sirach, and liaruch that they ai>pear more familiar with them than with several books of the NT. Allusions to Sirach may 1)6 discovered in Polycarp, L (tS^' SO) ; Didache, iv. 6 (43') ; un- doubted quotations from Sirach occur in Barnabas, Teitulli;in, etc. ; Eusebius introduces a quotation from 32» by the formula:
iioacxtiXM ;t^wa£>c,- irxpayyiyfiari 6t.^ 5j5a^««,Ti (Z)f7ft. Ev. I. i-X On the use made of Sirach in the Roman Church (Brevian.- and Missal) see \V. Schenz, Einleitung in die katuinischen liiicher des alien 'I'cMamentes (Regensburg, 18S7, 409). In Britain, Alfred (t lOOi) seems to have been the first writer to make any investigations touching the Canon, especially the two booki Wisd. and Sirach, ' placed with Solomon's works as if he iiiada them ; which for likeness of style and profitable use have j^oue for his ; but Jesus the Sun of Sirach composed them ... v cry large books and read in the church, of long custom, for niu'-h good instruction." In the Prayer-Book of 1649 there were 108 daily lessons from the Apocrj-pha ; that of l.'>52 had 110, that of l;")js had 125. On the use of Sirach in the 'Homilies' see Daubney, p. 67 ; on that made by English dinnes, p. 71 ff. To Archbishop Whitgift (t n:04), who (Icclarcd the Apocrypha ' Parte of the Bible,' and gave command for them to be bound up with the Bible, Drusius dedicated his edition of Sirach (1590).
LiTBEATURB. — Only a selection can be given. L Commen- taries : Camerarius, i)rusius, lirelschneider (see p. 643), tiruliu* (best e<lition : Hug. Grolii Annotationes in VT, curavit (Ua Jo. Lu. Vogel, Hala), t iii 1780, pp. 03-230, 4to), Cornelius a Lai.id* (Antw. 10ci4 f. ; often, at last Paris, 1869 f.), tVitzsche (Kg/, exrg. II db. zu den Apokryphen, vol. iii. 1859), E. C. Bissel (The Apocrypha, New Vork, 18S0); the place of a Commentary to tilled bv the Notes in the Variorum Apocrtipha, ed. by C. J. Ball (Eyre & Spottiswoode, no date); Edersheim (in W ace, ' Apocri-pha,' see p. 639i'), Zockler (in Strack-Zockler's Kqf. Koin- vieiuar, 1891, weak in textual criticism), Ed. Reuss, ms .4U« Testament Hbenetzt (voL vi 1894, p. 289 £f.), Ryssel (m ' Die Apokrvphen und Pseudepigraphen des AT . . . liberseut una herausgegeben von E. Kautzsch,' i. 1900, pp. 230-475).
2. Monographs : Tctcns, Disquisitiones qenerales in Sapien- tiam Jet. Sir., Hauniie, 1779; B. G. w'iner, D« utriusgru Siracida ataU, Erlangen, 1832; H. Ewald, 'Uber das gne
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Ihlscbe Spruchhurh Jesus' des Sohnes Siraohs,' In Bibluche Jahrlmcher, iii. n»l : ct («>« ■A../i(<' Israrla, if. 340 If.); V»Uiiuk'er in ^K, Iso", 93ff. ; A. iicii;i.r, ' Wuruiii gehort Sirach lu den Apoknphtir {ZDllG xiL llsiSl yMO.); Horowitz 'Dm liuch Jesus Siracli,' in iloiMlsichriJt /lir Ueschichtf i/nd Wiunuiclia/t del J uilriUhuiris, xiv. and 8eparatc(lire8lau, 1885); H. Unitz, ' Uie Suline des Tobias, die Uellciiisleu und der Sliruclidichter Siracli' (ib. 1872); A. Aslier. Inlrud. au tivre de rliccl^tiattique (Strassb. 13U1) ; Merguct, Vie Glaubens- und SillenU/ire Je> BucJia Jettu Sirach (Konigsberg, i., 1874 ; ii., iwl); Scliginann, Dm BucIi der Wrifheit det Jtmt Sohn da Hirach (Jojsua ben iira) m irim-m Verhullniis zu den saiomon- itchen Spruchen imrf seiiier ItUtorisehm Uedeulung (Breslau^ 18S3) ; F. E. Dauhanton, ' Uet apokr>-phe boek 2;«;.« 'lyitrau vttu 2,a«r endeleertvpedaarinven'at'(iu Theol. Ultulim, 18S0-1887). 3. On the m'Uuu of the Book : Dahne, DarXellung Oct jwlUch-aiezatuirinuichm Retijionsphilumphie (1837); J. F. Bruch, WeL<lititslehre der H ebrcirr (isil); Kaure, La sanesse dintte dans la litl^ralure didaclufxi^ det Uibrrux et deiJmfi
(Moiitaulian, Inauf. Uiss. 190U, 73 pp.).
4 On questions of textual criticism : B. Bendtsen (see p. 548*) ; E. O. Ben^-el (see p. 6451') ; J. Fr. Gaab, De lucis quxbusdam tenlentiarum Jem SiraciiUe (TubingiB, 1799), and Versio eanninuin uuorundam Arabicorum . . . cum animadversxonv- but ad unlentiat Jefu Siracidce (Tiib. 181l)i; Uyserinck, De SpretUcen ron Jeatu den Zoon can 6'iracA (1S70); Edw. Hatch, •on the text o( Ecclcsiasticus,' in Etsaijs in Uildical (Jrn-k, ISsfl. pp. 248-282; Elj. Nestle, .War;finaii«i (Tub. ISiO, p. 4811.); I'h. Thielmann, ' Die lattniische Debersetzunitdis Duches Sirach,' iu ArclUv Jur tat. LrxiKmjraiMe, viii. 6lil-i01 (1803), and • Die curopiiischen BcsUndtheile den lateinischen Sirach '(id. ix. ISiKii; H. Hcrkenne, />« Veteris Lafince EccUtsia^tici capitibus i.-xlii'i. Una ram notix ex eiasdein lihri translatimibus <j'(Ai.i/iVa, anneniaca, copticU, la!i7ul altera, tttru-hexaplari drpr.m.jjiis (Leipzig, 1899), and "Die Textiilierliuferung des Duches Sirach,' in HUjlisdie Studien, ed. Bardenhewer, \i. 1, 2 (1901), 129 140; Norb. Peters, "Die sahidisch-koptische Ueber Betziiii'.; des Buches E<_-clesiasticus auf ihren wahren Werth flir die Textkritik untersm-lit" (*. iii. 3 [1895]).
.■;. On the Alphabet of Ben Sini cf. I. Low, Aramdieche i'<onj<-nmim«n(Lcip!:ii,-, 1881, pp. 'iff., 417)."