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…]
From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 9:1-18 9:1 ‘God of our ancestors, Lord of mercy, who by your word have made the universe, 9:2 and in your wisdom have fitted human beings to rule the creatures that you have made, 9:3 to govern the world in holiness and saving … [Read more…]