The book The book of Wisdom : With Introduction And Notes was written by author Goodrick, Alfred Thomas Scrope, 1857- Here you can read free online of The book of Wisdom : With Introduction And Notes book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The book of Wisdom : With Introduction And Notes a good or bad book?
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It is preferable to join the first verse of the next chapter to this. Such words in the mouth of Solomon seem out of place ; but Farrar offers an ingenious apology. ' The writer would have answered' (to such an objection) ' that Wisdom never enters into contact with vice, but withdraws from the soul, step by step, as evil enters into it,' Jer. I ' -^ This explanation is certainly helped by the metaphor of day yielding to night. 264 THE BOOK OF WISDOM [8. i. 2- 8. I. But in full might she reache...th from end to end, And doth order all things properly. 2. Her I loved and diligently sought from my youth up, And sought to take her as a bride for myself, Yea, I became a lover of her beauty. 8. I. This passage might well seem to round off the ideas of the previous verses. But here we have a sudden return from the concep- tion of human wisdom to that of the divine. It is not the wisdom that repels vice which manages the world ; that wisdom is concerned with the ordering of a man's own life. There can be no doubt as to the meaning of ano Triparos els nipas.
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