Note 273 — Chapter II · SIRACH’S TEACHING (continued). HIS PLACE IN THE MOVEMENT OF THOUGHT.
Reading edition
Ch. xi. 17; comp. ii. 7 &c.; xvi. 6 &c.; xl. 13, 14. There are, however, passages in which Sirach betrays some little feeling of the practical difficulties of the older form of the doctrine of retribution: see xxxv. 18 [xxxii. 18].