Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 716
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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hsu_62d1b5a5-255c-4e33-9290-6386e52f6b3fThis identity belongs to this edition’s reading. Cross-witness correspondence awaits review.
R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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These parallels are, it must be confessed, not very convincing. On the other hand, the Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke xii. 15 f.) may have been suggested by more than one passage in Ben-Sira. The theme of the parable finds an exact parallel in Sirach xxxi. 3 ἐκοπίασε πλούσιος ἐν συναγωγγ χρημάτων, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀναπαύσει ἐμπίπλαται τῶν τρυφημάτων αὐτοῦ. St. Luke has parallels to some of the phrases used here (συνάξω, ἀναπαύου). There is also the remarkable parallel to the same passage, presenting similar features, in Sirach xi. 18-19: 1 See, further, Mayor, 22. of Sz. James*, pp. exvi-cxviii…
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