The wisdom of Solomon, also known as the book of wisdom, is one of the seven books included in the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible which does not appear in Protestant Bibles. The wisdom of Solomon was written in Greek, probably in the 1. century b.c. in Alexandria, Egypt. The title, translated into Greek as the wisdom of Solomon, attributed the book to King Solomon, son and heir of King David of Israel. King Solomon was celebrated for his wisdom, and the allocation of this book he relies on a great power of the source of the wisdom that he.
The first five chapters of the book of wisdom, explain the function of wisdom in human destiny and compares the fate of the property and the fate of the bad in life and thereafter. Chapters 6 to 9 treat the origin and the nature of wisdom and how it can be won. Ten to nineteen chapters tell the role of wisdom in the history of the people of God chosen Israel, particularly focusing on the critical event of the exodus of Egypt. In this third part of the book, there is a discussion prolonged idolatry in chapters 13 to 15 years.
The author of the book of wisdom speaks as a King in several sections, particularly as it deals with the other Kings of Chapter 6: 1-11. He urged to understand and to be alert because "sovereignty is given to you by the Lord and power by the most high, which will itself be probe your actions and consider your intentions.". (6: 3), He promises to ruthless judgment for leaders who do not follow the will of God, and forgiveness for the humble of pity.
The wisdom of Solomon is addressed to the author colleagues Jews living in the diaspora in Alexandria, Egypt, a large centre of Greek, learning and culture. It was here that the Septuagint, the translation Greek Hebrew entries, has been produced under the Ptolemies and completed by 132 BC. the author takes a few Greek philosophical ideas, particularly the Platonic distinction of the body and soul in the composition of the human person and the concept of the immortality of the soul (9: 15). "It proclaims that God made the human race for immortality (2: 23) and incorruptibility is the reward for the wisdom and the way of God" (6: 18-19).
The author gives a poetic description of the wisdom in the chapter seven:
And now I understand all, hidden or visible, the wisdom, the creator of all things, told me.
For it is a smart, Saint-esprit, single, multiple, subtle, mobile, incisive, honest, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, clever, irresistible, bienfaisant, easy beings human, steadfast, reliable, undisturbed, Almighty, all-survey, penetrating, intelligent, pure and more subtle minds.
Wisdom is faster to move that any request; She is so pure, it permeates and pervades all things.
It is a breath of the power of God, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; I know that nothing unclean can find its place in him.
Because it is a reflection of the eternal light mirror, without spot of power of God and the image of his goodness.
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John Mitton
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