[258]. The Mishna (Pirke Aboth, i. 2) ascribes this saying to Simeon the Righteous: ‘On three things the world stands—revelation (tōra), worship, and the bestowal of kindnesses.’
[259]. See Jos., Ant., xii. 4.
[260]. On the identity of the Ben Sira of the Talmud and our Sirach, see Horowitz in Frankel’s Monatsschrift, 1865, p. 181 &c. The ch in the form Sirach may be due to an old error in the Greek text.
[261]. Hist. of Israel, v. 263-4. Ewald includes xxxix. 12-35 in the portion belonging to the second (supposed) collection.
[262]. See the headings at certain points of the Greek version.
[263]. With vv. 21, 23 comp. St. Paul, Phil. iv. 11, 12.
[264]. See St. Jerome, Præf. ad Libros Salomonis, and comp. Lightfoot’s Clement of Rome, p. 164 &c.
[265]. Keerl, Die Apokryphenfrage (1855), p. 214.
[266]. Sketches of Jewish Social Life, p. 189.
[267]. Ewald, Revelation, p. 364 n.