What does Ecclesiasticus Chapter 46 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s particular figures and sequence remain attributed to its speaker. Every admitted unit is retained, with edition annotations separately labeled. No imported scenes, outcome guarantees or broad doctrines replace local wording.

Chapter breakdown

Ecclesiasticus 46 praises Jesus son of Nave, identified by the edition with Josue. His name, succession to Moses, raised hands and sword, victory and Israel's inheritance frame the remembrance. The sun's delayed setting and a day compared with two accompany the account. Surrounded by enemies, he calls on the sovereign Lord; hail strikes the opposing force. The Bethhoron identification belongs to the separate edition explanation.

Josue and Caleb remain faithful during Moses' days, opposing sin and murmuring. They are the two appointed deliverers out of six hundred thousand footmen to receive the land flowing with milk and honey. Caleb retains strength in old age and receives high places, without naming Hebron here. Judges whose hearts remained uncorrupted receive remembrance and prayers for their bones and descendants.

Samuel is remembered for renewed government, anointing princes, judgment and faithful prophecy. He calls on God with an unblemished lamb when enemies surround him; thunder crushes the hostile princes and Philistine lords. Near life's end he declares before the Lord and the anointed that he took neither money nor anything, even a shoe, and no accusation follows. After his sleep, the account attributes prophecy and a voice from the earth to him concerning the king's end and the nation's evil. It supplies no necromancer scene.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s particular figures and sequence remain attributed to its speaker. Development: Every admitted unit is retained, with edition annotations separately labeled. Conclusion: No imported scenes, outcome guarantees or broad doctrines replace local wording.

Lessons worth keeping

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The chapter’s particular figures and sequence remain attributed to its speaker.
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Every admitted unit is retained, with edition annotations separately labeled.
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No imported scenes, outcome guarantees or broad doctrines replace local wording.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 77947–77951
46:1. Valiant in war was Jesus the son of Nave, who was successor of Moses among the prophets, who was great according to his name, Jesus the son of Nave.... So Josue is named in the Greek Bibles. For Josue and Jesus signify the same thing, viz., a saviour.
Lines 77969–77972
46:7. He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries. And in the descent.... Of Beth-horon (Jos. 10.).
Lines 78002–78006
46:16. Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the beloved of the Lord his God, established a new government, and anointed princes over his people. 46:17. By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the God of Jacob beheld, and by his fidelity he was proved a prophet.
Lines 78021–78027
46:22. And before the time of the end of his life in the world, he protested before the Lord, and his anointed: money, or any thing else, even to a shoe, he had not taken of any man, and no man did accuse him. 46:23. And after this he slept, and he made known to the king, and shewed him the end of his life, and he lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy to blot out the wickedness of the nation.