OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 17:15

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

15

Their ways are ever before him. They will not be hidden from his eyes.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 15. God. Comp. adds, “he nourishes him as his first-born with instruction, and dividing the light of love, he does not abandon him.” Bible.—But the Rom. edit. agrees with us. God declared himself king of Israel, ( Calmet.) and its guardian, while he intrusted other nations to angels. Orig. Saint Augustine Ps. cxxxviii. Glossa. Deuteronomy 32:8.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter