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What is Wisdom 10 about?

Beginning the survey of wisdom at work in Israel's past, the tenth chapter traces her hand from Adam, whom she raised after his fall, through Noah, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, and Joseph, guarding the righteous through flood, fire, exile, and prison. She then entered the soul of the servant of the Lord and stood against dreadful kings, delivering a holy people from their oppressors. The account carries Israel to the sea, where wisdom drowned the enemy and brought the righteous through on dry ground. Retelling sacred history as the record of wisdom's rescues, the chapter turns the book's praise into a reading of God's dealings with His people.

Historical backdrop

The book comes from Alexandria, the Greek city on the Nile that Alexander founded and the Ptolemies made the intellectual capital of the age. There the largest community of the dispersion lived in Greek, read its Scriptures in the Greek of the Septuagint, and argued philosophy beside the great library, all under the constant pull of a cultured paganism. Wisdom is written into that pressure, in the elegant Greek of a Jew who would not trade the God of his fathers for the wisdom of the Greeks.

The Church Fathers on Wisdom 10
Deuterocanon (Catholic & Orthodox) · Accepted as canonical Scripture by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions and included in the original 1611 KJV (between the Old and New Testaments). Not in the Protestant 66-book canon. Read with the same care you bring to other Scripture, conscious that Protestants and Catholics weigh its authority differently.

Wisdom 10

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What is Wisdom 10 about?

Beginning the survey of wisdom at work in Israel's past, the tenth chapter traces her hand from Adam, whom she raised after his fall, through Noah, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, and Joseph, guarding the righteous through flood, fire, exile, and prison. She then entered the soul of the servant of the Lord and stood against dreadful kings, delivering a holy people from their oppressors. The account carries Israel to the sea, where wisdom drowned the enemy and brought the righteous through on dry ground. Retelling sacred history as the record of wisdom's rescues, the chapter turns the book's praise into a reading of God's dealings with His people.