Note 359 — Chapter I · The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach; or Ecclesiasticus
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We use this term as being the most convenient, but strictly speaking it is an anachronism, for, as we have seen above (Chap. vii), the term belongs to post-Maccabæan times; we use it here as representing the pre-Maccabæan tendency which later on developed into Sadducæanism.