The interpretation timeline

Sir 32:9

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Sir 32:9 · Douay-Rheims

“Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1274

A.D.

Bonaventure Medieval

c. A.D. 1221–1274

“"Listen in silence, and for your reverence good grace will come to you." The Wise Man exhorts the good hearer to listen silently and with reverence to the word of God; for silence and reverence are not unprofitable to him, because through these good grace will come to him. What is good grace? Good is the grace that makes a man good.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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