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Ecclesiasticus

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Ec·cle·si·as·ti·cus  (-klz-st-ks)
n. Abbr. Ecclus.
See Table at Bible.
Ecclesiasticus [ɪˌkliːzɪˈæstɪkəs]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) one of the books of the Apocrypha, written around 180 bc and also called the Wisdom of Jesus, the son of Sirach
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Noun1.Ecclesiasticus - an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect)
Ben Sira, Sirach, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach
Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature - any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom
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Wise Lives: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Wisdom of Sirach" is an Orthodox look at Sirach, also known as Ecclesiasticus, written only a couple centuries before the birth of Christ.
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1 BS1765 The canonicity of the book also called The Book of Sirach and Ecclesiasticus, has been argued since it was written in the second century BCE.
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