This chapter begins with a prayer for God's people. In it Ben Sira asks God to "rouse your anger and pour out your wrath; destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy." Sometimes when I hear things like that in the Old Testament it is a bit disconcerting. Until I remember that the enemy is the devil. Whenever we hear of God wiping out a people in battle, my Old Testament teacher Fr. Tim Schere would say: "We need to remember they represent all the evil in the world--they represent the devil." When I think of it that way, I am glad that God is there to wipe out the devil in my life and in our world and it can't happen soon enough!
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