OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 33:31

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.

31

If you have a slave, treat him like yourself, because you have bought him with blood.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 31. Faithful, is not expressed in Greek but must be understood.—Blood. Taking him prisoner at the hazard of thy life. The like misfortune might easily have befallen thee. Calmet.—Seneca (ep. 47.) says, “live so with thy inferior, as thou wouldst have thy superior live with thee.”

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter