Note 357 — Chapter I · The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach; or Ecclesiasticus

In this connection it is important to note the following facts: all the Greek manuscripts, uncial as well as cursives, have a great displacement in the text, xxx. 25-xxxiii. 13a having exchanged places with xxxiii. 13b-xxxvi. 16a; since all the Greek manuscripts have this displacement it is obvious that all ultimately go back to a single parent manuscript; now the Old Latin Version has not got the displacement, and yet it is a translation from the Greek; consequently this version represents a condition of affairs which is older than the oldest Greek manuscripts.