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Pentecost Season · Proper 17 · Year C

Sirach 10:12-18 or Proverbs 25:6-7

The Beginning of Pride Is Sin

September 3, 2028

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Michael and his angels drive a cascade of hybrids down the canvas, and the falling creatures are made of fish, shells, insects and musical instruments.I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning: the reading is that sentence, and Bruegel painted the fall as a collapse of order into strangeness.Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe great painter of Netherlandish peasant life (c. 1525-1569), who put proverbs, seasons and crowds on canvas with an eye that is affectionate and entirely unsentimental.Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, BrusselsSix museums under one roof in Brussels, holding the national collection from the Flemish primitives to Magritte.Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelLuke 14:1, 7-14Lk 14:1, 7-14
EpistleHeb. 13:1-8, 15-16Heb 13:1-8, 15-16
Old TestamentJer. 2:4-13Jer 2:4-13Alt. OTSir. 10:12-18Sir 10:12-18 orProv. 25:6-7Prv 25:6-7
PsalterPs. 81:1, 10-16Ps 81:1, 10-16Alt. PsalmPs. 112Ps 112

Overview & Insights

"Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence... for it is better to be told, 'Come up here,' than to be put lower." (Proverbs 25:6-7)

Proverbs 25 counsels against self-promotion before royalty, the same wisdom Jesus draws on in the Gospel's banquet parable. Sirach 10 makes the same point more bluntly: pride is the beginning of sin, and the proud end up overthrown.

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Take it further: Sirach 10:12-18 or Proverbs 25:6-7

Commentary

Commentary on Proverbs 25:6-7Commentary on Prv 25:6-7 Working Preacher

Connects the court etiquette proverb directly to Jesus' banquet teaching.

Proverbs 25 Bible CommentaryPrv 25 Bible Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse notes on the wisdom sayings collected for Hezekiah's court.

Proverbs 25:6 CommentariesPrv 25:6 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentary on the seating-before-royalty proverb.

Proverbs 25 (Barnes' Notes)Prv 25 (Barnes' Notes) StudyLight

Detailed verse notes on the chapter's court wisdom.

Proverbs 25:6 InterlinearPrv 25:6 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the underlying Hebrew of the court-etiquette proverb.

Background & Word Study

Proverbs 25:6-7Prv 25:6-7 Sefaria

Gives the Hebrew text of the proverb alongside translation.

Ben Sira 10:12-18 Sefaria

Gives the Hebrew and Greek text of the Sirach alternate for this Sunday.

Book of Proverbs OverviewBook of Prv Overview BibleProject

Traces the design of Proverbs as a whole, the book this reading is drawn from.

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