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Codex Sinaiticus, 1 Chronicles 9:27–10:11, Greek scribe

Sirach 6:24

Greek scribe, Codex Sinaiticus, 1 Chronicles 9:27–10:11, 4th century · Public domainGreek scribe, Codex Sinaiticus, 1 Chronicles 9:27–10:11, 4th century

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Sirach 6:24 (WEB)

Bring your feet into her fetters, and your neck into her chain.

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  • “They also may be understood to be fettered, who are enchained with the precepts of wisdom, the which being patiently supported are turned into ornaments: whence it hath been written, “Put thy feet into her fetters.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. vi. 24.

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  • “But since these also, as it is said, put their “feet in the fetters” of wisdom, are taught wisdom (he means the feet of the heart, not of the body), and bound by its golden chains depart not from the path of God, and become not runaways from him; whichever reading we adopt, the truth in the meaning is safe.” — editor's note: Ecclus. vi. 24.

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  • “For it is said of wisdom, “a collar of gold around thy neck.”…There cometh to us a man powerful in this world, his wife offendeth him, and perhaps he hath desired another man’s wife who is more beautiful, or another woman who is richer, he wisheth to put away the one he hath, yet he doeth it not.” — editor's note: Ecclus. vi. 24.

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