From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 12:12-22 12:12 For who is there to ask, ‘What have you done?’ Or who is there to disagree with your sentence? Who to arraign you for destroying nations which you have created? Who to confront you by championing the wicked? 12:13 For there … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 12:3-11 12:3 The ancient inhabitants of your holy land 12:4 you hated for their loathsome practices, their acts of sorcery, and unholy rites. 12:5 Those ruthless murderers of children, those eaters of entrails at feasts of human flesh and of blood, those initiates … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 11:21-26; 12:1-2 11:21 For your great power is always at your service, and who can withstand the might of your arm? 11:22 The whole world, for you, can no more than tip a balance, like a drop of morning dew falling on the … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 11:6-20 11:6 Whereas their enemies had only the ever-flowing source of a river fouled with mingled blood and mud, 11:7 to punish them for their decree of infanticide, you gave your people, against all hope, water in abundance, 11:8 once you had shown … [Read more…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 10:1-21; 11:1-5 Wisdom Protected Adam 10:1 It was Wisdom who protected the first man to be fashioned, the father of the world, who had been created all alone, she it was who rescued him from his fall 10:2 and gave him the strength … [Read more…]