Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word
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City of God 1× 20 Mystici Corporis Christi 1× 23
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Codex Sinaiticus Aleph c. AD 330-360 Codex Vaticanus B c. AD 300-325
What is Wisdom 6 about?

Addressing kings and judges directly, the sixth chapter warns rulers that their power is given from the Lord, who will search their works and judge the mighty with severity. From this warning the author turns to commend wisdom, who is radiant and unfading, easily seen by those who love her and found by those who seek her, going about to find such as are worthy. He traces a chain that runs from the desire for discipline to the keeping of her laws, and so to incorruption and nearness to God. Opening the book's central praise of wisdom, the chapter urges the powerful to prize her above their thrones.

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 6
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 6

Wisdom Chapter 6
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What is Wisdom 6 about?

Addressing kings and judges directly, the sixth chapter warns rulers that their power is given from the Lord, who will search their works and judge the mighty with severity. From this warning the author turns to commend wisdom, who is radiant and unfading, easily seen by those who love her and found by those who seek her, going about to find such as are worthy. He traces a chain that runs from the desire for discipline to the keeping of her laws, and so to incorruption and nearness to God. Opening the book's central praise of wisdom, the chapter urges the powerful to prize her above their thrones.