Wisdom #catechesis/bible/wisdom
Old Testament · Wisdom Books · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Wisdom 1 — An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and desires not our death.
- Wisdom 2 — The vain reasonings of the wicked: their persecuting the just, especially the Son of God.
- Wisdom 3 — The happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked.
- Wisdom 4 — The difference between the chaste and the adulterous generations: and between the death of the just and the wicked.
- Wisdom 5 — The fruitless repentance of the wicked in another world: the reward of the just.
- Wisdom 6 — An address to princes to seek after wisdom: she is easily found by those that seek her.
- Wisdom 7 — The excellence of wisdom: how she is to be found.
- Wisdom 8 — Further praises of wisdom: and her fruits.
- Wisdom 9 — Solomon’s prayer for wisdom.
- Wisdom 10 — What wisdom did for Adam, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, and the people of Israel.
- Wisdom 11 — Other benefits of wisdom to the people of God.
- Wisdom 12 — God’s wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with the Canaanites.
- Wisdom 13 — Idolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all that worship for gods the works of the hands of men.
- Wisdom 14 — The beginning of worshipping idols: and the effects thereof.
- Wisdom 15 — The servants of God praise him who has delivered them from idolatry; condemning both the makers and the worshippers of idols.
- Wisdom 16 — God’s different dealings with the Egyptians and with his own people.
- Wisdom 17 — The Egyptian darkness.
- Wisdom 18 — The slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt: the efficacy of Aaron’s intercession, in the sedition on occasion of Core.
- Wisdom 19 — Why God showed no mercy to the Egyptians. His favour to the Israelites. All creatures obey God’s orders for the service of the good, and the punishment of the wicked.
[!info] Source
New Advent na2 — Septuagint/Greek · Douay-Rheims · Clementine Vulgate.
