Sirach

* This book is translated from Greek.

FOREWORD

Many great things have been handed down to me through the Law, the Prophets, and other scriptures that followed. Because of the knowledge and wisdom in them, we must praise Israel. Those who will be able to read them should not remain educated only for themselves. Being curious, they should be useful in word and writing to those who are abroad. My grandfather Jesus devoted himself too much to reading the Law, the Prophets, and other paternal books. After gaining enough experience through them, he decided to write something about education and wisdom himself, so that the scholars, who had mastered these things, could progress more and more in life according to the law. Please read them favorably and carefully, and also be condescending if somewhere it would seem that we could not cope with the translation of expressions diligently composed by others. Because what is said in Hebrew does not have exactly the same force when it is translated into another language. And not only this book, but also the Law itself, the Prophets and the other holy books have quite a difference in their reading in the original form. In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Ptolemy Everget, I arrived in Egypt and stayed there for a long time. I found a big difference in education. I thought it very necessary to add some diligence and diligence to translate the above-mentioned book. I applied great vigilance and skill for a long time to complete the publication of the book for those migrants who wish to be scholarly and to prepare their manners so as to live in accordance with the law. *

* This preface is to the Greek translation of the 70's. It is also contained in the Slavic Bible.