Book of Wisdom

And the second antiphon.

Wisdom of God, be with me, always at work in me.

Wisdom, chapter nine.

God of my fathers, Lord of mercy.

You who have made all things by Your word and in Your wisdom have established man to rule the creatures produced by You, to govern the world in holiness and justice, and to render judgment in integrity of heart.

Amen.

Repeat the antiphon.

Wisdom of God, be with me, always at work in me.

Let us condemn him to a most shameful death, for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.

Wisdom was written in Greek, and it is not in the Hebrew Bible.

The Church has received it as inspired scripture, and the Council of Trent defined it as such.

Saint Cyprian quotes this passage in his testimonies under the heading, that he is the righteous one whom the Jews should put to death.

Genesis, the Psalms, Isaiah, Micaiah, Zechariah, Daniel, O.C., Jeremiah, and Malachi.

The Greek Isaiah was already in Jewish hands before the church existed.

Wisdom is not needed for the case at all.

Second, the Messiah was to restore a temporal kingdom.

Definitely was not.

In fact, all you have to do is open up the book of Wisdom.

Let me open it up.

I should've had it ready.

Give me a second.

Let's open up the book of Wisdom.

There it is.

Wisdom 1:13, "God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living." There you have it right there.

In today's episode, we'll look at three of those allegations, starting with number one, Martin Luther removed books from the Old and New Testament.

It's true that Luther did not believe the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament, like Wisdom, Maccabees, and Tobit, were inspired scripture.

His 1534 Bible said in German, Apocrypha.

These books are not held equal to Holy Scripture and yet are useful and good to read.

Repeat the anthem, the Lord is King, let the earth rejoice.

And our reading is from Wisdom, chapter 7, verses 13 through 14.

Simply I learned about wisdom, ungrudgingly do I share, her riches I do not hide away.

For to men she is an unfailing treasure.

I'm Joan Watson, and this is Thursday of the 25th week of ordinary time.

Having finished Wisdom and Proverbs, now we're spending a few days in Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes is given the Hebrew title of Kohelet, which is a rare word.

It's fitting perhaps 'cause this is an unusual book.

This is something for us to think about.

One of my favorite Bible verses comes from Wisdom, chapter 13, verse 1 through 4, and will have to do with what we talk about later as well.

And this is what it says.

It says, "...for all men who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature, and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who exists." nor did they recognize the craftsman while paying heed to his works.