PART TWO

First:    When The Book in our Coptic Orthodox Church is            read?

Second:   Joshua Son of Sirav doctrine of wisdom.

Third:    Sections of The Book of Joshua son of Serah

Fourth:   the place of The Book in the Holy Bible.

Fifth:    The purpose of writing The Book of Joshua                son of Sirav.

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First:    When The Book in our Coptic Orthodox Church is            read?

The reading of The Book of Joshua son of Sirav in our Coptic Orthodox church is as follow:

Early on Friday of the third week of the great fast
Early on Tuesday of the fourth week of the great fast
Early on Wednesday of the sixth week of the great fast
Early on Thursday of the sixth week of the great fast
Early on Tuesday of the seventh week of the great fast

In the Holy Week, the reading of The Book is as follow:

 
Early on Monday of the Holy Pascha
At eleven o'clock am on Monday
At three o’clock pm on Tuesday
At three o’clock pm on Wednesday
At six o’clock pm on Wednesday
At three o’clock pm on Thursday

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Second:   Joshua son of Sirav doctrine of wisdom.

Wisdom is from the God as He did create it, it must have a separate existence, but it depends on Him. It is Omnipresence, and resolved - in a special meaning - in every body. The basis of the wisdom and integrity of the crown is the fear of the Lord (1: 11, 16, 17 .20 to 25). And the Lord grant it, in his name, to the faithful fans of the believers (1: 10, 16). And wisdom is the fear of the Lord and work by Law (19: 18, 19), although it is synonymous with the Law of Moses (24: 32, 33), ie, it contains the principles and rules governing the operation of life.

In this doctrine, the universality of salvation (24: 3-21) meets with the allocation of co-opting of God to the Jews, according to Lawgiven by God (24: 23 to 34).

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Third:    Sections of The Book of Joshua son of Serah

The book of Joshua son of Sirav is divided into three sections:

Section one: - It includes Verses from (1 to 43). All of these include many of the wisdoms which take the Book image of the wisdom of the wise Solomon. They are rules, advices, and wills for different types of people for parents, children, leaders, Subordinates and for the rich and the poor.

As well as it calls for morality and justice, and not to rely on the money, and not Hauteur. And manufacture of compassion for the poor and the sick, sad and out of courtesy, and the lives of people in love. It also encourages to avoid the alliances and obscene speech, and impure and belly lust, and not to follow the Sibyl and Alttir and dreams.

Also forgiving people and respecting adults, and not to follow the basic nature of glory toward subordinates and not favor the faces and the canonization of El Ashoor and Albacore.
 
Section two: comprising of Verses (44 to 50). In this Chapter, the writer glorified the glory of the fathers and the prophets, kings and leaders, judges and priests of the Children of Israel. And talks about their curricula, and reminds them of their positions and their fear of God and their Heroism and their Jealousy, and the glory they've earned from the Lord.

At the end of this section, The Book writer states his name, by saying: "Designed discipline of reason and science in this Book, Joshua son of Sirav, the Oorchillimy, which provide the wisdom from his heart" (S. 50: 29)

Section three: It is the last of Chapter of The Book, which is number fifty one.

In this Chapter, the writer is ending The Book by praying to the Lord, recognized his ability, and exalting to Him for his quality and his mercy, which was developed by him in his prayers in his life, and gives him wisdom and discernment and intelligence, integrity and purity and the ability to learn.

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Fourth:   the place of The Book in the Holy Bible.

The Book of Joshua son of Sirav is located after The Book of Solomon wisdom and before The Book of the Prophet’s Ishaiah

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Fifth:    The purpose of writing The Book of Joshua                son of Sirav.

Palestine remained more than one hundred years of rule in Egypt Batalsah, then felt under Selloukas rule in Syria in 198 BC. M.

The Ontynukhus the third (223 to 187 BC. M.) and his successor Sellouks the fourth (187 to 175 BC. M) Have had much compassion for the Jews, they provided them with concessions and exemptions. They also contributed to the rebuilding of the structure (2 ml 3: 3).

The conquest of Alexander that had been revealed to the world with kind of civilization that made from the word civilization a masterpiece (the Helleniah).

It soon spread tendency to adopt the new pattern of life in the whole world. But that was where the Helleniah civilization of features (a mix of cultures, inclusiveness efforts to repeal the limits of races, religions and the glorification of the forces of nature and the cult of Rights), and this was what is a threat to the Jewish religion.

Son of Sirav was a human being, open minded, welcome some Greek habits, philosophical concepts, but hates the philosophical concepts Stoicism. But he knows that this intellectual and moral power to have the new religion was opposed to doing some of the requirements essential (o 2: 12-14).

Son of Sirav saw these risks as he went on to write to defend the religious and cultural, heritage of the Jewish, and its view of God and the world, and distinguished by the choice of God. He tries to convince the people that the religion of Israel, which has the Law El Mohaat indigenous wisdom, do not need to greed for breakthroughs in Greek thought and civilization of its ambiguity. And achieve its objective, the reconciliation of religion and traditional wisdom to the public based on personal experience, so started writing a book of The Book of son of Sirav’s wisdom.