Sirach 16:3 (WEB)
Don’t trust in their life. Don’t rely on their numbers; for one can be better than a thousand, and to die childless than to have ungodly children.
Fathers and councils · 2
““For one man who doeth the will of the Lord, is better than ten thousand transgressors.” ( Ecclus. xvi. 3.)” — editor's note: Mr. Field observes that St. Chrys. repeatedly cites Ecclus. xvi. 3 , thus; and that while the Greek is simply, “or one is better than a thousand,” the Syriac…
Read the whole comment“For as ten thousand measures of chaff and hay would not be of equal value to ten pearls, so neither they; for “better is one that doeth the will of the Lord, than ten thousand transgressors” ( Ecclus. xvi. 3 ); meaning by “ten thousand” not [merely] many, but an infinite multitude.” — the author cites it
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