Before the Church · c. 50 BC – AD 20
The Wisdom of Solomon
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What it is
Written in Alexandria in the voice of Solomon. The ungodly reason that life is short and set a trap for the righteous man who calls himself a child of God; Wisdom is described as a breath of the power of God and a spotless mirror; and idolatry is traced to a grieving father who made an image of his dead child.
Why it lasted
The bridge between Hebrew wisdom and Greek philosophy, and the book Romans 1 and Hebrews 1 both draw on directly. Its righteous man mocked, tested, and condemned to a shameful death was read by the church as prophecy of the passion.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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