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What Wisdom is and how she was born, I shall now explain; I shall hide no mysteries from you, but shall follow her steps from the outset of her origin, setting out what we know of her in full light, without departing from the truth. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 22)
No king has known any other beginning of existence; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 5)
I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones; compared with her, I held riches as nothing. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 8)
irresistible, beneficent, friendly to human beings, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying, penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 23)
She is indeed more splendid than the sun, she outshines all the constellations; compared with light, she takes first place, (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 29)
She enhances her noble birth by sharing God's life, for the Master of All has always loved her. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 3)
she accompanied him down into the pit, nor did she abandon him in his chains until she had brought him the sceptre of a kingdom and authority over his despotic masters, thus exposing as liars those who had traduced him, and giving him honour everlasting. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 14)
for you had tested your own as a father admonishes, but the others you had punished as a pitiless king condemns, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 10)
The creatures that made them suffer and against which they protested, those very creatures that they had taken for gods and by which they were punished they saw in their true light; and he whom hitherto they had refused to know, they realised was true God. And this is why the final condemnation fell on them. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 27)
If, charmed by their beauty, they have taken these for gods, let them know how much the Master of these excels them, since he was the very source of beauty that created them. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 3)
if they are capable of acquiring enough knowledge to be able to investigate the world, how have they been so slow to find its Master? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 9)
but your providence, Father, is what steers it, you having opened a pathway even through the sea, and a safe way over the waves, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 3)
