Audite me, magnates et omnes populi : et rectores ecclesiæ, auribus percipite.
The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus 33:19 Commentary
1 historical voiceHow the Church has read Sirach 33:19 across two millennia — Matthew Henry, John Calvin, Augustine of Hippo, John Chrysostom and more, gathered verse by verse from the public domain.
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ON ECCLESIASTICUS 7:11
Reason teaches the immediate sense of these things to parents, concerning the right way to rule over their children and to raise them strictly until they have reached maturity, so that they will be worthy heirs of their parents after they are gone. Moreover, according to the spiritual sense it instructs the leaders of the church, so that they might preserve the dignity of their order until death, with a deliberate authority and right guidance. In this way they will leave disciples who have been raised well and who will be useful heirs of their works.