Sirach
Old Testament · Wisdom · 16 chapter studies · 16 narrated · Total audio: 5 hrs 5 min
Read Sirach in canonical sequence.
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- Intro Sirach - Overview A Coptic Orthodox overview of Sirach, explaining its Orthodox canonical place, why common NKJV editions omit it, its Greek Septuagint transmission from a Hebrew original, its...
- 1-2 Sirach 1-2 - Wisdom, Fear, and the Furnace Sirach 1 2 introduces Ben Sira's translated wisdom as life from the Lord, forming the soul in reverent fear, patient endurance, and trust in God's mercy through temptation.
- 3-4 Sirach 3-4 - Honor, Humility, and the Poor Sirach 3 4 teaches wisdom as honor at home, humility before God, meek mercy to the poor, justice for the afflicted, and courage to speak truth without surrendering the soul.
- 5-7 Sirach 5-7 - Presumption, Speech, and Repentance Sirach 5 7 warns against presuming on mercy, delaying repentance, corrupting speech, choosing friends carelessly, and treating worship or daily duty as secondary to self will.
- 8-11 Sirach 8-11 - Discernment Under Power Sirach 8 11 trains discernment around rulers, pride, appearances, speech, women and men, public honor, and the danger of judging a life before its end.
- 12-14 Sirach 12-14 - Friendship, Enemies, and Wealth Sirach 12 14 teaches discernment in friendship and enmity, the spiritual danger of unequal power, the instability of wealth, and the urgency of generous joy before death.
- 15-18 Sirach 15-18 - Freedom, Sin, Mercy, and Return Sirach 15 18 teaches that wisdom receives those who fear God, human beings remain responsible for sin, mercy calls the soul to return, and creation reveals the Lord before...
- 19-23 Sirach 19-23 - The Mouth and the Passions Sirach 19 23 teaches the discipline of speech, secrecy, correction, shame, lust, oaths, and desire, showing that the mouth and passions reveal the heart's formation.
- 24 Sirach 24 - Wisdom in the Congregation Sirach 24 presents Wisdom praising herself in the congregation, dwelling among God's people, serving in the holy tabernacle, and opening a careful Christological horizon toward...
- 25-26 Sirach 25-26 - Household Wisdom and Marriage Sirach 25 26 treats household wisdom, marriage, warnings about destructive relationships, and praise of a faithful wife with pastoral guardrails against misogyny and weaponized...
- 27-31 Sirach 27-31 - Anger, Forgiveness, Money, and Feasting Sirach 27 31 teaches integrity in business and speech, the danger of betrayal, forgiveness before prayer, responsible lending, child formation, wealth, moderation, and feasting...
- 32-35 Sirach 32-35 - Worship, Sacrifice, and Justice Sirach 32 35 teaches reverent listening, disciplined counsel, worship offered with justice, and prayer that God hears from the humble, the widow, the fatherless, and the oppressed.
- 36-39 Sirach 36-39 - Counsel, Medicine, Grief, Work, and the Scribe Sirach 36 39 moves from prayer for God's people into counsel, friendship, physicians, grief, skilled work, the vocation of the scribe, and praise of the Lord's works.
- 40-43 Sirach 40-43 - Death, Shame, and Creation's Praise Sirach 40 43 contemplates mortality, true shame and honor, the limits of human life, and creation as a mirror of the Creator's glory and a summons to unceasing praise.
- 44-49 Sirach 44-49 - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Sirach 44 49 praises the righteous fathers, forming holy memory through patriarchs, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Elijah, the prophets, and those whose righteousness is not...
- 50-51 Sirach 50-51 - Worship and the Pursuit of Wisdom Sirach 50 51 crowns the book with temple worship, blessing, the people bowing, thanksgiving for deliverance, and the lifelong pursuit of wisdom.