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Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha) + New Testament references

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Intro
The Wisdom of Solomon is one of the two wisdom books in the Apocrypha, the other being "Sirach" also known as "Ecclesiasticus". This book seems to be extensively quoted in the New Testament (see list below). Some have argued that this book was removed from the Jewish canon because of its messianic prophecies.

The LDS Bible dictionary has the following to say.
The Book of the Wisdom of Solomon. Written in praise of “Wisdom” and in condemnation of those who willfully rejected her. It purports to be addressed by the Israelite king Solomon to the kings and rulers of the earth. Many scholars feel it is of 1st century A.D. origin, in the Greek language. It shows traces of the influence of Greek philosophy. The most famous passages are those containing the description of “the righteous man” (4:7–18) and the picture of “Wisdom” (Wisdom 7–9).

The object of the book is to warn Alexandrian Jews against abandoning the religion of their fathers. The “Wisdom” of the book of Proverbs, “the fear of the Lord,” is asserted to be the basis of all true happiness.
https://www.abibleaday.com/bible-books/wisdom/
The book of Wisdom, sometimes called “The Wisdom of Solomon” is patterned after the other wisdom literature in the Bible. Wisdom is an Apocrypha book and not included in all versions of the Bible.

The New Jerusalem Bible, Revised Standard Version (RSV), New American Bible (NABRE), Wycliffe Bible (WYC), Common English Bible (CEB), Good News Translation (GNT), and Douay-Rheims (DRA) all include the book of Wisdom. Interestingly, the original Authorized King James Version (KJV) contains Wisdom, but the text was removed almost two centuries later. The Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures, which was widely used in Jesus’s day, also includes the book of Wisdom.
Wikipedia, with "CE"s removed. :)
Origen in the 2nd century refers to uncertainty about the Book of Wisdom. Melito of Sardis (possibly) in the 2nd century AD, Augustine. (c. 397 AD) and Pope Innocent I (405 AD) considered Wisdom of Solomon as part of the Old Testament. Athanasius writes that the Book of Wisdom along with three other deuterocanonical books, while not being part of the Canon, "were appointed by the Fathers to be read". Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 385 AD) mentions that the Wisdom of Solomon was of disputed canonicity. According to the monk Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 400 AD) the Book of Wisdom was categorized as "ecclesiastical" rather than "canonical".

The Book of Wisdom was listed as canonical by the Council of Rome (382 AD), the Synod of Hippo (393), the Council of Carthage (397) and the Council of Carthage (419), the Council of Florence (in 1442) and the Council of Trent (in 1546).


Name
This book has a variety of names, and is sometimes confused with a number of Pseudigraphical works (i.e. ones that do not exist in the western or eastern canons) which are attributed to Solomon. Some of the names given to this book include:
* The Book of Wisdom
* The Wisdom of Solomon
* Solomon

The usual abbreviation is "Wisdom".

Structure, genre and content
(Italics taken from Wikipedia)
The 19 chapters of the work can be grouped into three sections:

* Book of Eschatology
* exhortation to justice
* speech of the impious, contrasts of the wicked and the just
* exhortation to wisdom
* Book of Wisdom
* Solomon's speech concerning wisdom, wealth, power and prayer
* Book of History
* introduction, followed by diptychs of plagues
* digression on God's power and mercy
* digression on false worship and further plagues
* recapitulation and concluding doxology.[4]

The book is addressed to the rulers of the earth (verse 1:1), urging them to love righteousness and seek wisdom; the wicked think that all is chance and that they should enjoy each day, but they are deluded. In the second section Solomon (not explicitly named, but strongly implied) tells of his search for wisdom.

The Wisdom of Solomon can be linked to several forms of ancient literature, both Jewish and non-Jewish, but it clearly belongs with biblical Wisdom books such as the Book of Job, one of only five such books among ancient Jewish literature. In terms of classical genre it has been identified as an encomium and with the Greek genre of the "exhortatory discourse", by which a teacher attempts to persuade others to a certain course of action.


New Testament references
Stolen from the following website. (Be warned, the blog in general has some anti-Mormon content.)

https://sovereignjesus.net/bibles-and-v ... testament/

These are not generally taken from the KJV. DRB is Douay-Rheims, a Roman Catholic Bible translation.

Matthew 13:43 cf Wisdom 3:1, 7 – “But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them….In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks in the stubble”

*Matthew 27:42-43 cf Wisdom 2:12-20 – a prophecy of Jesus on the cross. “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hands of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected”.

*John 1:1; 1 John 5:7 and Revelation 19:13 cf Wisdom 18:14-16 – a prophecy of Jesus who is the Word of God: “For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and the night in its swift course was now half gone, your-all powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth”.

John 3:14-15 cf Wisdom 16:7 – “For the one who turned towards it [the fiery serpent – Numbers 21:1-9] was saved, not by the thing that was beheld, but by you, the Saviour of all”.

John 17:3 cf Wisdom 15:3 – “For to know you is complete righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality”.

Acts 10:28-29 cf Wisdom 6:7 (v. 8 in DRB) – “For the Lord of all will not stand in awe of anyone, or show deference to greatness; because he himself made both small and great, and he takes thought for all alike”.

Romans 1:18-23 cf Wisdom 12:24-13:9 – “For they went far astray on the paths of error, accepting as gods those animals that even their enemies despised; they were deceived like foolish infants. Therefore, as though to children who cannot reason, you sent your judgment to mock them….For all people who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know the one who exists, nor did they recognize the artisan while paying heed to his works; but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air, or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water, or the luminaries of heaven were the gods that ruled the world…Yet again, not even they are to be excused; for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?”

Romans 2:4 cf Wisdom 11:23 – “But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent”.

Romans 5:12 cf Wisdom 2:24 – “….but by the envy of the devil, death entered the world…” (DRB).

1 Corinthians 1:18 cf Wisdom 14:7 – “For blessed is the wood [the cross] by which righteousness comes” See 1 Peter 2:24 below.

1 Corinthians 6:2 cf Wisdom 3:1, 8 – “….the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God….They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever”’

1 Corinthians 10:19-21 cf Baruch 4:7 – “For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God”.

Ephesians 2:1-3 cf Wisdom 2:24 – “….but through the devil’s envy, death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it”.

Ephesians 6:10-17 cf Wisdom 5:17-21 – “The Lord will take his zeal as his whole armour, and will arm all creation to repel his enemies; he will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and wear impartial justice as a helmet; he will take holiness as an invincible shield, and sharpen stern wrath for a sword, and creation will join with him to fight against his frenzied foes….”.

2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12; 1 Pet 5:4; Revelation 2:10; 3:11 cf Wisdom 5:16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 5:4; Rev 2:10; 3:11 cf Wisdom 5:15-16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

James 3:4 cf Wisdom 14:1 – “….one preparing to sail and about to voyage over raging waves calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the ship that carries him”.

1 Peter 1:6-7 cf Wisdom 3:5-6; Sirach 2:5 – “Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt-offering he accepted them” (Wisdom 3:5-6).

1 Peter 2:24 cf Wisdom 14:7 – “For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes”. Wisdom 14:7 and 10:4 prophesy the cross. Justin Martyr says the Jews renounced the LXX [Septuagint/Greek Old Testament] because of this and other passages which prophesied Jesus, and removed them from their copies. He said he had seen such vandalised copies.

1 Peter 4:17-18 cf Wisdom 12:20-21 – “For if you punished with such great care and indulgence the enemies of your servants and those deserving of death, granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness, with what strictness you have judged your children, to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!”.

1 Peter 5:4; 2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12; Revelation 2:10 cf Wisdom 5:15-16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

2 Peter 3:9 cf Wisdom 1:13 – “…because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. For he created all things so that they might exist…”.

*1 John 5:7; John 1:1; and Revelation 19:13 cf Wisdom 18:14-16 – a prophecy of Jesus who is the Word of God: “For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and the night in its swift course was now half gone, your-all powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth”.

*Revelation 19:13, John 1:1 and 1 John 5:7 cf Wisdom 18:15 – the Word is God: see John 1:1


Wisdom of Solomon audiobook (KJV) - 1 hour and 13 minutes
--
This is part of my ongoing series on Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical works:

1 Esdras inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1343974

2 Esdras (the most relevant book in the Apocrypha?) inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1344302

1 Maccabees
viewtopic.php?t=69454

2 Maccabees
viewtopic.php?p=1347024

3 Maccabees
viewtopic.php?t=69496

4 Maccabees
viewtopic.php?p=1348046

Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremy/Jeremiah
viewtopic.php?t=69433

Book of Tobit inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1341501

Apocryphal additions to Esther inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1343414

Bel and the Dragon (quoted in full, KJV; inc audiobook link)
viewtopic.php?t=69261

Prayer of Azarias and Hymn of the Three Children (quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
viewtopic.php?p=1341611

Book of Judith and the Book of Mormon, inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?t=69402

Book of Susanna inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?t=69386

Book of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus
viewtopic.php?t=69412

Prayer of Mannases (aka Mannaseh; quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
viewtopic.php?t=69263

Psalm 151 (quoted in full, NRSV)
viewtopic.php?t=63875

Epistle to the Laodiceans (NT, quoted in full Wycliffe's translation, )
viewtopic.php?t=64025

The Book of Odes - this is an Eastern Orthodox work of limited interest, but included for the sake of completeness.
viewtopic.php?t=69470

Outside the Western and Eastern Orthodox Canon...

The Ethiopian canon. This includes brief info on the books of Sinodos, Ethiopian Clement, Ethiopian Covenant, and Didascalia as well as a list of other works in the canon.
viewtopic.php?t=69540

The Book of Jubilees aka Leptogenesis or Little Genesis
viewtopic.php?p=1348962

3 Corinthians (Armenian canon)
viewtopic.php?t=69567
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Re: Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha) + New Testament references

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Niemand wrote: January 29th, 2023, 7:57 am Image
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Intro
The Wisdom of Solomon is one of the two wisdom books in the Apocrypha, the other being "Sirach" also known as "Ecclesiasticus". This book seems to be extensively quoted in the New Testament (see list below). Some have argued that this book was removed from the Jewish canon because of its messianic prophecies.

The LDS Bible dictionary has the following to say.
The Book of the Wisdom of Solomon. Written in praise of “Wisdom” and in condemnation of those who willfully rejected her. It purports to be addressed by the Israelite king Solomon to the kings and rulers of the earth. Many scholars feel it is of 1st century A.D. origin, in the Greek language. It shows traces of the influence of Greek philosophy. The most famous passages are those containing the description of “the righteous man” (4:7–18) and the picture of “Wisdom” (Wisdom 7–9).

The object of the book is to warn Alexandrian Jews against abandoning the religion of their fathers. The “Wisdom” of the book of Proverbs, “the fear of the Lord,” is asserted to be the basis of all true happiness.
https://www.abibleaday.com/bible-books/wisdom/
The book of Wisdom, sometimes called “The Wisdom of Solomon” is patterned after the other wisdom literature in the Bible. Wisdom is an Apocrypha book and not included in all versions of the Bible.

The New Jerusalem Bible, Revised Standard Version (RSV), New American Bible (NABRE), Wycliffe Bible (WYC), Common English Bible (CEB), Good News Translation (GNT), and Douay-Rheims (DRA) all include the book of Wisdom. Interestingly, the original Authorized King James Version (KJV) contains Wisdom, but the text was removed almost two centuries later. The Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures, which was widely used in Jesus’s day, also includes the book of Wisdom.
Wikipedia, with "CE"s removed. :)
Origen in the 2nd century refers to uncertainty about the Book of Wisdom. Melito of Sardis (possibly) in the 2nd century AD, Augustine. (c. 397 AD) and Pope Innocent I (405 AD) considered Wisdom of Solomon as part of the Old Testament. Athanasius writes that the Book of Wisdom along with three other deuterocanonical books, while not being part of the Canon, "were appointed by the Fathers to be read". Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 385 AD) mentions that the Wisdom of Solomon was of disputed canonicity. According to the monk Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 400 AD) the Book of Wisdom was categorized as "ecclesiastical" rather than "canonical".

The Book of Wisdom was listed as canonical by the Council of Rome (382 AD), the Synod of Hippo (393), the Council of Carthage (397) and the Council of Carthage (419), the Council of Florence (in 1442) and the Council of Trent (in 1546).


Name
This book has a variety of names, and is sometimes confused with a number of Pseudigraphical works (i.e. ones that do not exist in the western or eastern canons) which are attributed to Solomon. Some of the names given to this book include:
* The Book of Wisdom
* The Wisdom of Solomon
* Solomon

The usual abbreviation is "Wisdom".

Structure, genre and content
(Italics taken from Wikipedia)
The 19 chapters of the work can be grouped into three sections:

* Book of Eschatology
* exhortation to justice
* speech of the impious, contrasts of the wicked and the just
* exhortation to wisdom
* Book of Wisdom
* Solomon's speech concerning wisdom, wealth, power and prayer
* Book of History
* introduction, followed by diptychs of plagues
* digression on God's power and mercy
* digression on false worship and further plagues
* recapitulation and concluding doxology.[4]

The book is addressed to the rulers of the earth (verse 1:1), urging them to love righteousness and seek wisdom; the wicked think that all is chance and that they should enjoy each day, but they are deluded. In the second section Solomon (not explicitly named, but strongly implied) tells of his search for wisdom.

The Wisdom of Solomon can be linked to several forms of ancient literature, both Jewish and non-Jewish, but it clearly belongs with biblical Wisdom books such as the Book of Job, one of only five such books among ancient Jewish literature. In terms of classical genre it has been identified as an encomium and with the Greek genre of the "exhortatory discourse", by which a teacher attempts to persuade others to a certain course of action.


New Testament references
Stolen from the following website. (Be warned, the blog in general has some anti-Mormon content.)

https://sovereignjesus.net/bibles-and-v ... testament/

These are not generally taken from the KJV. DRB is Douay-Rheims, a Roman Catholic Bible translation.

Matthew 13:43 cf Wisdom 3:1, 7 – “But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them….In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks in the stubble”

*Matthew 27:42-43 cf Wisdom 2:12-20 – a prophecy of Jesus on the cross. “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hands of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected”.

*John 1:1; 1 John 5:7 and Revelation 19:13 cf Wisdom 18:14-16 – a prophecy of Jesus who is the Word of God: “For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and the night in its swift course was now half gone, your-all powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth”.

John 3:14-15 cf Wisdom 16:7 – “For the one who turned towards it [the fiery serpent – Numbers 21:1-9] was saved, not by the thing that was beheld, but by you, the Saviour of all”.

John 17:3 cf Wisdom 15:3 – “For to know you is complete righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality”.

Acts 10:28-29 cf Wisdom 6:7 (v. 8 in DRB) – “For the Lord of all will not stand in awe of anyone, or show deference to greatness; because he himself made both small and great, and he takes thought for all alike”.

Romans 1:18-23 cf Wisdom 12:24-13:9 – “For they went far astray on the paths of error, accepting as gods those animals that even their enemies despised; they were deceived like foolish infants. Therefore, as though to children who cannot reason, you sent your judgment to mock them….For all people who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know the one who exists, nor did they recognize the artisan while paying heed to his works; but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air, or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water, or the luminaries of heaven were the gods that ruled the world…Yet again, not even they are to be excused; for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?”

Romans 2:4 cf Wisdom 11:23 – “But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent”.

Romans 5:12 cf Wisdom 2:24 – “….but by the envy of the devil, death entered the world…” (DRB).

1 Corinthians 1:18 cf Wisdom 14:7 – “For blessed is the wood [the cross] by which righteousness comes” See 1 Peter 2:24 below.

1 Corinthians 6:2 cf Wisdom 3:1, 8 – “….the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God….They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever”’

1 Corinthians 10:19-21 cf Baruch 4:7 – “For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God”.

Ephesians 2:1-3 cf Wisdom 2:24 – “….but through the devil’s envy, death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it”.

Ephesians 6:10-17 cf Wisdom 5:17-21 – “The Lord will take his zeal as his whole armour, and will arm all creation to repel his enemies; he will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and wear impartial justice as a helmet; he will take holiness as an invincible shield, and sharpen stern wrath for a sword, and creation will join with him to fight against his frenzied foes….”.

2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12; 1 Pet 5:4; Revelation 2:10; 3:11 cf Wisdom 5:16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 5:4; Rev 2:10; 3:11 cf Wisdom 5:15-16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

James 3:4 cf Wisdom 14:1 – “….one preparing to sail and about to voyage over raging waves calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the ship that carries him”.

1 Peter 1:6-7 cf Wisdom 3:5-6; Sirach 2:5 – “Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt-offering he accepted them” (Wisdom 3:5-6).

1 Peter 2:24 cf Wisdom 14:7 – “For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes”. Wisdom 14:7 and 10:4 prophesy the cross. Justin Martyr says the Jews renounced the LXX [Septuagint/Greek Old Testament] because of this and other passages which prophesied Jesus, and removed them from their copies. He said he had seen such vandalised copies.

1 Peter 4:17-18 cf Wisdom 12:20-21 – “For if you punished with such great care and indulgence the enemies of your servants and those deserving of death, granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness, with what strictness you have judged your children, to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!”.

1 Peter 5:4; 2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12; Revelation 2:10 cf Wisdom 5:15-16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

2 Peter 3:9 cf Wisdom 1:13 – “…because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. For he created all things so that they might exist…”.

*1 John 5:7; John 1:1; and Revelation 19:13 cf Wisdom 18:14-16 – a prophecy of Jesus who is the Word of God: “For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and the night in its swift course was now half gone, your-all powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth”.

*Revelation 19:13, John 1:1 and 1 John 5:7 cf Wisdom 18:15 – the Word is God: see John 1:1


Wisdom of Solomon audiobook (KJV) - 1 hour and 13 minutes
--
This is part of my ongoing series on Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical works:

1 Esdras inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1343974

2 Esdras (the most relevant book in the Apocrypha?) inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1344302

1 Maccabees
viewtopic.php?t=69454

2 Maccabees
viewtopic.php?p=1347024

Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremy/Jeremiah
viewtopic.php?t=69433

Book of Tobit inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1341501

Apocryphal additions to Esther inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?p=1343414

Bel and the Dragon (quoted in full, KJV; inc audiobook link)
viewtopic.php?t=69261

Prayer of Azarias and Hymn of the Three Children (quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
viewtopic.php?p=1341611

Book of Judith and the Book of Mormon, inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?t=69402

Book of Susanna inc. audiobook link
viewtopic.php?t=69386

Book of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus
viewtopic.php?t=69412

Prayer of Mannases (aka Mannaseh; quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
viewtopic.php?t=69263

Psalm 151 (quoted in full, NRSV)
viewtopic.php?t=63875

Epistle to the Laodiceans (NT, quoted in full Wycliffe's translation, )
viewtopic.php?t=64025
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Re: Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha) + New Testament references

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Cruiserdude wrote: January 29th, 2023, 8:29 am
Niemand wrote: January 29th, 2023, 7:57 am Image
"Wisdom of Solomon" Francysk Skaryna 1518

Intro
The Wisdom of Solomon is one of the two wisdom books in the Apocrypha, the other being "Sirach" also known as "Ecclesiasticus". This book seems to be extensively quoted in the New Testament (see list below). Some have argued that this book was removed from the Jewish canon because of its messianic prophecies.

The LDS Bible dictionary has the following to say.
The Book of the Wisdom of Solomon. Written in praise of “Wisdom” and in condemnation of those who willfully rejected her. It purports to be addressed by the Israelite king Solomon to the kings and rulers of the earth. Many scholars feel it is of 1st century A.D. origin, in the Greek language. It shows traces of the influence of Greek philosophy. The most famous passages are those containing the description of “the righteous man” (4:7–18) and the picture of “Wisdom” (Wisdom 7–9).

The object of the book is to warn Alexandrian Jews against abandoning the religion of their fathers. The “Wisdom” of the book of Proverbs, “the fear of the Lord,” is asserted to be the basis of all true happiness.
https://www.abibleaday.com/bible-books/wisdom/
The book of Wisdom, sometimes called “The Wisdom of Solomon” is patterned after the other wisdom literature in the Bible. Wisdom is an Apocrypha book and not included in all versions of the Bible.

The New Jerusalem Bible, Revised Standard Version (RSV), New American Bible (NABRE), Wycliffe Bible (WYC), Common English Bible (CEB), Good News Translation (GNT), and Douay-Rheims (DRA) all include the book of Wisdom. Interestingly, the original Authorized King James Version (KJV) contains Wisdom, but the text was removed almost two centuries later. The Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures, which was widely used in Jesus’s day, also includes the book of Wisdom.
Wikipedia, with "CE"s removed. :)
Origen in the 2nd century refers to uncertainty about the Book of Wisdom. Melito of Sardis (possibly) in the 2nd century AD, Augustine. (c. 397 AD) and Pope Innocent I (405 AD) considered Wisdom of Solomon as part of the Old Testament. Athanasius writes that the Book of Wisdom along with three other deuterocanonical books, while not being part of the Canon, "were appointed by the Fathers to be read". Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 385 AD) mentions that the Wisdom of Solomon was of disputed canonicity. According to the monk Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 400 AD) the Book of Wisdom was categorized as "ecclesiastical" rather than "canonical".

The Book of Wisdom was listed as canonical by the Council of Rome (382 AD), the Synod of Hippo (393), the Council of Carthage (397) and the Council of Carthage (419), the Council of Florence (in 1442) and the Council of Trent (in 1546).


Name
This book has a variety of names, and is sometimes confused with a number of Pseudigraphical works (i.e. ones that do not exist in the western or eastern canons) which are attributed to Solomon. Some of the names given to this book include:
* The Book of Wisdom
* The Wisdom of Solomon
* Solomon

The usual abbreviation is "Wisdom".

Structure, genre and content
(Italics taken from Wikipedia)
The 19 chapters of the work can be grouped into three sections:

* Book of Eschatology
* exhortation to justice
* speech of the impious, contrasts of the wicked and the just
* exhortation to wisdom
* Book of Wisdom
* Solomon's speech concerning wisdom, wealth, power and prayer
* Book of History
* introduction, followed by diptychs of plagues
* digression on God's power and mercy
* digression on false worship and further plagues
* recapitulation and concluding doxology.[4]

The book is addressed to the rulers of the earth (verse 1:1), urging them to love righteousness and seek wisdom; the wicked think that all is chance and that they should enjoy each day, but they are deluded. In the second section Solomon (not explicitly named, but strongly implied) tells of his search for wisdom.

The Wisdom of Solomon can be linked to several forms of ancient literature, both Jewish and non-Jewish, but it clearly belongs with biblical Wisdom books such as the Book of Job, one of only five such books among ancient Jewish literature. In terms of classical genre it has been identified as an encomium and with the Greek genre of the "exhortatory discourse", by which a teacher attempts to persuade others to a certain course of action.


New Testament references
Stolen from the following website. (Be warned, the blog in general has some anti-Mormon content.)

https://sovereignjesus.net/bibles-and-v ... testament/

These are not generally taken from the KJV. DRB is Douay-Rheims, a Roman Catholic Bible translation.

Matthew 13:43 cf Wisdom 3:1, 7 – “But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them….In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks in the stubble”

*Matthew 27:42-43 cf Wisdom 2:12-20 – a prophecy of Jesus on the cross. “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; for if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hands of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected”.

*John 1:1; 1 John 5:7 and Revelation 19:13 cf Wisdom 18:14-16 – a prophecy of Jesus who is the Word of God: “For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and the night in its swift course was now half gone, your-all powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth”.

John 3:14-15 cf Wisdom 16:7 – “For the one who turned towards it [the fiery serpent – Numbers 21:1-9] was saved, not by the thing that was beheld, but by you, the Saviour of all”.

John 17:3 cf Wisdom 15:3 – “For to know you is complete righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality”.

Acts 10:28-29 cf Wisdom 6:7 (v. 8 in DRB) – “For the Lord of all will not stand in awe of anyone, or show deference to greatness; because he himself made both small and great, and he takes thought for all alike”.

Romans 1:18-23 cf Wisdom 12:24-13:9 – “For they went far astray on the paths of error, accepting as gods those animals that even their enemies despised; they were deceived like foolish infants. Therefore, as though to children who cannot reason, you sent your judgment to mock them….For all people who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know the one who exists, nor did they recognize the artisan while paying heed to his works; but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air, or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water, or the luminaries of heaven were the gods that ruled the world…Yet again, not even they are to be excused; for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?”

Romans 2:4 cf Wisdom 11:23 – “But you are merciful to all, for you can do all things, and you overlook people’s sins, so that they may repent”.

Romans 5:12 cf Wisdom 2:24 – “….but by the envy of the devil, death entered the world…” (DRB).

1 Corinthians 1:18 cf Wisdom 14:7 – “For blessed is the wood [the cross] by which righteousness comes” See 1 Peter 2:24 below.

1 Corinthians 6:2 cf Wisdom 3:1, 8 – “….the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God….They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever”’

1 Corinthians 10:19-21 cf Baruch 4:7 – “For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God”.

Ephesians 2:1-3 cf Wisdom 2:24 – “….but through the devil’s envy, death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it”.

Ephesians 6:10-17 cf Wisdom 5:17-21 – “The Lord will take his zeal as his whole armour, and will arm all creation to repel his enemies; he will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and wear impartial justice as a helmet; he will take holiness as an invincible shield, and sharpen stern wrath for a sword, and creation will join with him to fight against his frenzied foes….”.

2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12; 1 Pet 5:4; Revelation 2:10; 3:11 cf Wisdom 5:16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 5:4; Rev 2:10; 3:11 cf Wisdom 5:15-16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

James 3:4 cf Wisdom 14:1 – “….one preparing to sail and about to voyage over raging waves calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the ship that carries him”.

1 Peter 1:6-7 cf Wisdom 3:5-6; Sirach 2:5 – “Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt-offering he accepted them” (Wisdom 3:5-6).

1 Peter 2:24 cf Wisdom 14:7 – “For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes”. Wisdom 14:7 and 10:4 prophesy the cross. Justin Martyr says the Jews renounced the LXX [Septuagint/Greek Old Testament] because of this and other passages which prophesied Jesus, and removed them from their copies. He said he had seen such vandalised copies.

1 Peter 4:17-18 cf Wisdom 12:20-21 – “For if you punished with such great care and indulgence the enemies of your servants and those deserving of death, granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness, with what strictness you have judged your children, to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!”.

1 Peter 5:4; 2 Timothy 4:8; James 1:12; Revelation 2:10 cf Wisdom 5:15-16 – “But the righteous live for ever, and their reward is with the Lord; the Most High takes care of them. Therefore they will receive a glorious crown and a beautiful diadem from the hand of the Lord….”.

2 Peter 3:9 cf Wisdom 1:13 – “…because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. For he created all things so that they might exist…”.

*1 John 5:7; John 1:1; and Revelation 19:13 cf Wisdom 18:14-16 – a prophecy of Jesus who is the Word of God: “For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and the night in its swift course was now half gone, your-all powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth”.

*Revelation 19:13, John 1:1 and 1 John 5:7 cf Wisdom 18:15 – the Word is God: see John 1:1


Wisdom of Solomon audiobook (KJV) - 1 hour and 13 minutes
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This is part of my ongoing series on Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical works:

1 Esdras inc. audiobook link
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2 Esdras (the most relevant book in the Apocrypha?) inc. audiobook link
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1 Maccabees
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2 Maccabees
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Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremy/Jeremiah
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Book of Tobit inc. audiobook link
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Apocryphal additions to Esther inc. audiobook link
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Bel and the Dragon (quoted in full, KJV; inc audiobook link)
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Prayer of Azarias and Hymn of the Three Children (quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
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Book of Judith and the Book of Mormon, inc. audiobook link
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Book of Susanna inc. audiobook link
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Book of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus
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Prayer of Mannases (aka Mannaseh; quoted in full KJV, inc. audiobook link)
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Psalm 151 (quoted in full, NRSV)
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Epistle to the Laodiceans (NT, quoted in full Wycliffe's translation, )
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Because I enjoy your style of writing, I've read all of these apocryphal posts you've made. I can tell you've really put effort into these posts and just want you to know they're a pleasure to read and see and your work is appreciated 👍👍
Thank you! Very kind. That's me written up all of the KJV Apocrypha & that's all of the Roman Catholic books I think. (Laodiceans is in some versions of the Vulgate) I have most of the Eastern Orthodox books done too, but still a few of those to go. I'm currently writing a review of "Odes" , an Orthodox book consisting of recycled canticles from elsewhere - not much to say on that one.

There are a handful of others from the Orthodox churches (not all accepted) like 3 & 4 Maccabees. The Ethiopian Bible isn't really familiar to me, but I'll try and write something up on that.

The church's Bible dictionary includes some notes on them, but it's surprising how little LDS attention they get apart from perhaps 2 Esdras. D&C rightly advocates caution and discernment with these works, but I think people should be exercising that anyway (including with leadership!!!).

Beyond this we head into the books which aren't canon for anyone. They're much harder to check off, because there's so many of them, and no particular order. I'll probably put those into a separate series. I've been linking these all together partly for the search algorithm.

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Interesting tidbit here which is in line with LDS doctrine. God creates the world out of pre-existing matter.

Wisdom 11:17/18
For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,

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It seems the Chat GPT bot is aware of this book!

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Chip wrote: January 20th, 2023, 1:18 pm Me: What apocryphal books also talk about Sodom?

Chat GPT:

Several apocryphal books, also known as the Deuterocanonical books, mention Sodom and the story of its destruction.

The book of Wisdom in the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) describes the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of God's justice against the wicked. It says, "For by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented" (Wisdom 11:17).

The book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) also mentions the destruction of Sodom as a warning to those who are wicked and ungodly. It says, "The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless: 'Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?'" (Sirach 16:8).
The Book of Jubilees, is a Jewish work from the Second Temple period that gives an account of the world from the creation to Moses' time. It gives a detailed account of the events that led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, pointing out the sins of the people as the reason behind the destruction.

The book of Enoch, which is considered as a pseudepigrapha (non-canonical) book by most of the Christians and Jewish tradition, also talks about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and it gives a detailed account of the sins of the people of Sodom, mentioning the sins of fornication, sexual immorality, and sexual perversion.

These books are not considered as part of the canon of the Holy Bible by most of the Christian denominations and most of the Jewish tradition.
Me:

Does the book of Jasher talk about Sodom?


Chat GPT:

The Book of Jasher, also known as the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just, is a pseudepigraphal (non-canonical) text that is not considered part of the canon of the Holy Bible by most Christian denominations or the Jewish tradition. It is said to be a collection of historical and legal texts from ancient Israel, but there is no evidence that it existed before the Middle Ages.

According to the Book of Jasher, it does talk about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but it provides more details and a different perspective on the events that led to their destruction. It describes the people of Sodom as being very wicked and ungodly, committing sins such as robbery, murder, and sexual immorality. It also mentions that the city was punished by God for its sins and was destroyed by fire and brimstone. However, it should be noted that most of the scholars believe that it is not an authentic historical document and its historical accuracy is uncertain.
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And also
Antilegomena: the books which barely made it into the Bible - Revelation, the Song of Solomon, Jude, Esther etc.
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Also a note on the pre-existence of souls
As a child I was naturally gifted, and a good soul fell to my lot; or rather, being good, I entered an undefiled body (Wisdom 8:19,20).
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The Shepherd of Hermas
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The Epistle of Barnabas (NT Apocrypha) - link between OT and NT, or not?
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The Didache or Teachings of the Apostles
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The Gospel of Nicodemus or Acts of Pilate, as tested on Mennonites
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Is Q canonical? How about the Gospel of Thomas?
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The LDS Bible Dictionary on Lost Books and non-canonical works referred to in the Bible.
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Underrated Bible stories #3: Habakkuk's Hair-raising Experience (from Bel & the Dragon in the KJV Apocrypha)
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Four Apocryphal Psalms - 152, 153, 154, 155
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Ethiopian Canon...
The Book of Enoch
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1 Meqabyan (Ethiopian canon), another lost book?
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2 Meqabyan (Ethiopian canon), - the return of Tsirutsaydan
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3 Meqabyan (Ethiopian canon) a Question of Satan, another lost work?
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2 Clement: Inclement Gnosticism?
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A post on the Restored Branch, an English LDS microsect and its canon which includes works from the Nag Hammadi and Gnostic texts: these are the Gospel of Peter, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Phillip, the Gospel of Truth (sic), the Letter of the Apostle Paul, the Sophia (Wisdom) of Jesus the Christ, the Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles and the Letter of Peter which he sent to Philip.
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Celtic legends about the Bible, including the visits of Biblical figures to western Europe, the Michael Line, Holy Grail, and Pontius Pilate.
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On other interrelated religions:
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My thread about the Koran, and its use of figures from the Bible, the Apocrypha and extracanonical material. How useful a source is the Koran itself? Does it have any real extra information on Biblical figures? This is something of work in progress.
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Was Zoroaster/Zarathustra a lost prophet of God? Some surprising links between this largely forgotten figure and Judaism, plus the Gathas.
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My thread on a bizarre Middle Eastern sect and their beliefs. Are the Yezidis of the Middle East an ancient Satanist group or a lost Jewish tribe? And what is the connection between their religion and today's rainbow flag? Is this strange group simply misunderstood?
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Another audiobook link from an LDS channel 1 hr 16 mins approx
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Will the real Book of Jasher please stand up? At least a dozen works are claimed to be the Book of Jasher, but did it ever exist in the first place?
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The Book of Gad the Seer, a work referred to in the Old Testament which may have been preserved by a small group of Jews in India. Some of its content is stunning including references to a sacrificed lamb who is sent by God and the future tribulation.
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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: are these lost books of the founders of each Tribe of Israel or a later forgery?
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The Ascension of Isaiah, visions of Christ and Antichrist
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The Book of the Cock – an unfortunately named gospel still in current use in Ethiopia.
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The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians, an early endorsement of Paul or a forgery?
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The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus - a beautiful short epistle about the relations of Christians and non-Christians, and the Tree of Knowledge
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End Times Prophecy in Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha: A guide
Includes discussions of 2 Esdras, (1) Enoch, Nicodemus, Ascension of Isaiah, Gad the Seer and the Shepherd of Hermas
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New Age Bibles: Urantia, Oahspe, Kolbrin, Oera Linda, Crowley's Book of the Law, a Course in Miracles etc. These works, usually channelled, provide a very different take on spirituality yet are strangely similar to one another. How should we approach these new works and are they just demonic?
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In my thread about the Koran, I quoted Wisdom 10.7 on Lot's Wife and 10.4 referring back to the flood.
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Here is the complete chapter 10 (KJV translation.) It discusses Wisdom, and how it saves the world. We should see "Wisdom" here as also referring to something like the Holy Spirit. I have put some comments here in square brackets, because the early references may not be immediately obvious to some people. Verses 10-14 overtly refer to the Exodus from Egypt but perhaps covertly to Jesus whose clothes were sold, who "descended into the Pit" and was given the sceptre of glory.

1 She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall, [Adam]
2 And gave him power to rule all things.
3 But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother. [Cain and Abel]
4 For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value. [Noah's Ark]
5 Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son. [Abraham and Isaac]
6 When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities. [Lot and the cities around Sodom and Gomorrah]
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7 Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul. [Lot's Wife]
8 For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.
9 Rut wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.
10 When the righteous fled from his brother's wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours. [The Exodus?]
11 In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich.
12 She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.
13 When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit, [Hidden prophecy about Jesus?]
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14 And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory. [Jesus again?]
15 She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them. [The Exodus]
16 She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;
17 Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season; [Pillar of Smoke and Fire]
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18 Brought them through the Red Sea, and led them through much water:
19 But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.
20 Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them.
21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.


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Thank you for sharing your study and research of these additional writings. Thank you also for the links to audios. Much appreciated.

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