Sunday, August 4, 2024

Note on Sirach 25:24

  

The beginning of sin was from a woman,

and because of her we all die. (Sirach 25:24 | Lexham English Septuagint)

 

ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀρχὴ ἁμαρτίας,

καὶ διʼ αὐτὴν ἀποθνῄσκομεν πάντες. (Sirach 25:25 |Göttingen Septuagint)

 

 

In Ben Sira the sin was not Adam’s, but Eve’s (Sir. 25.24). (Paolo Sacchi, The History of the Second Temple Period [Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, Press, 2000], 351 n. 17)

 


 

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