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	The Wisdom of Solomon
		Wisdom is spirit devoted to man's good, and she will not hold a blasphemer blameless for his words, because God is a witness of his inmost being, who sees 7 clear into his heart and hears every word he says.
		The true beginning of wisdom is the desire to learn, and a 18 concern for learning means love towards her; the love of her means the 19 keeping other laws; to keep her laws is a warrant of immortality; and 20 immortality brings a man near to God.
		Wisdom they ignored, and they suffered for it, losing the power to recognize what is good and leaving by their lives a monument of 9 folly, such that their enormities can never be forgotten.
	www.carm.org /lost/solomon.htm (9058 words)

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		Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away, and is easily seen by them that love her, and is found by them that seek her.
		Now what wisdom is, and what was her origin, I will declare: and I will not hide from you the mysteries of God, but will seek her out from the beginning of her birth, and bring the knowledge of her to light, and will not pass over the truth: 6:25.
		Wisdom Chapter 18 The slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt: the efficacy of Aaron's intercession, in the sedition on occasion of Core.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SCRIPTUR/WISDOM.TXT (11406 words)

	Wisdom Of Solomon, The (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Solomon speaks in the first person in this book (The Wisdom of Solomon 6 through 9), as he does in Ecclesiastes 1:12 ff., for that he is made the speaker until the close of The Wisdom of Solomon 9 is made certain by 7:1 ff.; 9:2 ff.
		In The Wisdom of Solomon 14:27, however, sin is made to have its root in idolatry, meaning perhaps that all sin consists in not giving-proper heed to the one true God, and that the moral monstrosities of his time were outgrowths of idolatrous worship.
		The Wisdom of Solomon 3:1; 5:1; 6:5-9 imply that at the time of writing the Jews addressed were suffering under the lash of persecution, and we have the resulting feeling of, animosity against the Egyptians, the persecuting power, expressed in 11:16-19.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/9212 (4608 words)

	Book of Wisdom -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Although it is written as if by ((Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)) Solomon, its language and ideas alike are entirely of (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek origin.
		Parallels between Wisdom and Matthew include the theme of testing and mocking of a servant of God’s claim to be protected by God.
		Wisdom 2:13 "He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord..." 17 "Let us see if his words be true..." 18 "For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him."
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/book_of_wisdom.htm (294 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Book of Wisdom
		Besides Solomon, the writer to whom the authorship of the work has been oftenest ascribed is Philo, chiefly on the ground of a general agreement in respect to doctrines, between the author of Wisdom and Philo, the celebrated Jewish philosopher of Alexandria (d.
		When God formed the world, Wisdom was present (ix, 9), and she gives to men all the virtues which they need in every station and condition of life (vii, 27; viii, 21; x, 1, 21; xi).
		Wisdom is also identified with the "Word" of God (ix, 1; etc.), and is represented as immanent with the "Holy Spirit", to whom a Divine nature and Divine operations are likewise ascribed (i, 5-7; vii, 22, 23; ix, 17).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15666a.htm (2049 words)

	THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
		Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.
		As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you, and will not hide myslef from you: but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not pass over the truth.
		For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.
	mojo.calyx.net /~olsen/RASTAFARI/APOCRYPHA/wisdom.html (10769 words)

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		Wisdom is found by those who do not put it to the test, and shows herself to those who do not mistrust her.
		Wisdom is pure emanation of God: this is part of the growing tendency to identify wisdom as divine.
		Wisdom rescued a righteous man,Jacob,fleeing his brother's wrath and gave him victory in the contest with the angelic spirit in the night.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SCRIPTUR/WISDOM1.TXT (6696 words)

	WISDOM OF SOLOMON, THE in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		We read in the Old Testament of the wisdom of Solomon (1 Ki 3:7-14; compare Sirach 47:12-18 (14-19)), and the whole of the Book of Proverbs is called by his name, though he is at most the author of but a part.
		Solomon speaks in the first person in this book (The Wisdom of Solomon 6 through 9), as he does in Eccl 1:12 ff, for that he is made the speaker until the close of The Wisdom of Solomon 9 is made certain by 7:1 ff; 9:2 ff.
		According to The Wisdom of Solomon 3:1 ff, the righteous pass at death immediately into the bliss of God; but the teaching of 4:20 f is that the wicked and the righteous shall be assembled in one place to receive their sentence.
	bible-history.com /isbe/W/WISDOM+OF+SOLOMON,+THE (4500 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wisdom of Solomon
		Wisdom, also known as the Wisdom of Solomon, is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible that are not translations of Hebrew originals.
		Although it is written as if by Solomon, its language and ideas alike are entirely of Greek origin, For this reason it is considered the most classical Greek in the Septuagint.
		For example, Matthew 27:43 (which is connected to Jesus, and which is uniquely Matthian material with no parallels in other gospels) is very similar in language and theme to Wisdom 2:13, which in turn seems to be alluding to the suffering servant of Psalm 22:8.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wisdom-of-Solomon (312 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wisdom of Solomon (Bible: Apocrypha) - Encyclopedia
		Wisdom of Solomon or Wisdom, early Jewish book included in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not in the Hebrew Bible.
		The remainder of the book is a history of God's care of the Jews from the beginning, with a long parenthesis on the natural origin of idolatry and its folly.
		It is the paragon of what is called wisdom literature, a term for the Jewish philosophical writings of the pre-Christian era.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WisdomSo.html (333 words)

	Book of Wisdom, Wisdom of Solomon
		Wisdom, a defense of the Jewish way of life, is one of the books of the Apocrypha; in the Septuagint and Vulgate it is included in the Old Testament.
		Wisdom or Wisdom of Solomon, is a book of the Old Testament in those versions of the Bible following the Greek Septuagint (generally Roman Catholic and Orthodox versions).
		The nature of wisdom, its importance, and how one may find it are described, and in the first person, ostensibly that of Solomon, the writer describes his own search for wisdom.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txs/wisdom.htm (548 words)

	Study Helps - Lesson 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
		Solomon was never so rich or so wise or so truly great as when he confessed, "I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in." {PK 30.2}
		John 8:3-11 KJV 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
	www.ssnet.org /qrtrly/eng/02c/helps/lesshp02.html (3175 words)

	The Book of Wisdom of Solomon
		The Book of Wisdom of Solomon, his fourth one, is one of the most beautiful and practical books of the Old Testament, and the closest to the Gospels.
		Wisdom presents in a few words, a most detailed and practical doctrine of each one of the Three Holy Persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit...
		Lord God, as verses 10-11 asks, send Wisdom forth from the holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory send her, that she may be with the one reading these words, and that he may learn what is pleasing to thee...
	www.biblia.com /bible/wisdom.htm (5664 words)

	The Wisdom of Solomon
		Solomon's set income alone was more than thirty tons of gold per year, "BESIDE that which he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country" (I Ki.
		So overwhelming was his wisdom, his wealth, his kingdom, indeed his very manner of being, that she said: "It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
		Truly Solomon's inescapable grief and sorrow was due to his keen and constant awareness concerning the emptiness and dissatisfaction of all possible achievements and attainments of this world.
	byonespirit.com /solomon.htm (2340 words)

	ScripTours DRV Bible: Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This Book is so called, because it treats of the excellence of WISDOM, the means to obtain it, and the happy fruits it produces.
		It abounds with instructions and exhortations to kings and all magistrates to minister justice in the commonwealth, teaching all kinds of virtues under the general names of justice and wisdom.
		In the next three, he teacheth that wisdom proceedeth only from God, and is procured by prayer and a good life.
	www.scriptours.com /bible/bible.cgi?book=25 (162 words)

	Wisdom of Solomon
		In one of Silvanus’ hymns we have an explicit allusion to Wisdom 7.25-26:”For he (the Logos) is a light from the power of God, and he is an emanation of the pure glory of the Almighty, and he is the spotless mirror of the activity of God, and he is the image of his goodness.
		Wisdom is a practical appeal that one’s learning should have an impact on one’s moral life.
		Wisdom emphasizes the king’s lowly and mortal nature while identifying all the philosophic ideals of Greek thought with the teachings of Judaism.
	ourworld.cs.com /tomofield/Apocrypha/Summaries/wisdom.html (1814 words)

	Wisdom of Solomon, from The holy Bible, King James version (Apocrypha) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Chapter 1 Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha), chapter 1
		Chapter 2 Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha), chapter 2
		Chapter 3 Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha), chapter 3
	religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu /library/tocs/kjv/ap/KjvSolo.html (174 words)

	Wisdom of Solomon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Some see in it a composite work of three parts: chapters 1-6, 7-9, and 10-19, of which the third is said to resemble a Passover Haggada.
		Review - Features: Solomon's wisdom is out of fashion The Biblical king, says Piers Paul Read, believed that true sagacity is a direct gift from God.
		Chicken Soup for the Individualist's Soul: My Grandfather's Blessings; Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging; The Wisdom of Solomon at Work; Ancient Virtues for Living and Leading Today; The...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wisdoms1o.asp (517 words)

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		[12] Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.
		[8] For because they passed wisdom by, they not only were hindered from recognizing the good, but also left for mankind a reminder of their folly, so that their failures could never go unnoticed.
		[5] It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
	www.zyworld.com /cosmiccreeper/OTapocrapha/solomon.htm (10470 words)

	The Wisdom of Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Solomon had many computerized chess players to pick from and the Talker was to pick only one.
		Solomon replied "If you move there you will lose a piece my friend." and it showed the Talker the reason why.
		He was playing with all of Solomon's computerized players with language and playing styles from all over the world and all at the same time.
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	Wisdom of Solomon
		[1:6] For wisdom is a kindly spirit and will not free a blasphemer from the guilt of his words; because God is witness of his inmost feelings, and a true observer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
		[6:12] Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.
		[14:5] It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~kloppen/wisdom-e.htm (10511 words)

	Wisdom of Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Practically all scholars, even in conservative circles, agree that the book should not be attributed to Solomon, while a linguistic examination of the work also rules out with a reasonable margin of certainty that its original language might have been Hebrew or Aramaic.
		James M. Reese writes: "As a unified whole the Wisdom of Solomon belongs to the literary genre of protreptic, a genre of rhetorical exhortation in Greek philosophy.
		These descriptions of wisdom, especially the crucial passage in 7:22-8:21, reflect the increasing emphasis on the transcendence of God characteristic of later Judaism, combined with an unmistakable influence from Hellenism.
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /wisdom.html (942 words)

	Wisdom of Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Wisdom 1:7 -- traditional antiphon for Introit of Pentecost
		Wisdom 18:15 -- traditional use for Nativity (out of context, totally)
		Wisdom acts through people [contrast human activity in Sirach sketch]
	ourworld.cs.com /tomofield/Apocrypha/Lectures/wis-sol.html (250 words)

	USCCB - NAB - Wisdom - Introduction
		At times he speaks in the person of Solomon, placing his teachings on the lips of the wise king of Hebrew tradition in order to emphasize their value.
		Many passages from this section of the book, notably Wisdom 3:1-8, are used by the Church in her liturgy.
		Special Providence of God during the Exodus (Wisdom 11:2-16; 12:23-27; 15:18-19:22) with digressions on God's mercy (Wisdom 11:17-12:22) and on the folly and shame of idolatry (Wisdom 13:1-15:17)
	www.nccbuscc.org /nab/bible/wisdom/intro.htm (285 words)

	Wisdom of Solomon - Apocrypha
		- Wisdom also, when the nations in wicked agreement had been confounded, recognized the righteous man and preserved him blameless before God, and kept him strong in the face of his compassion for his child.
		- For because they passed wisdom by, they not only were hindered from recognizing the good, but also left for mankind a reminder of their folly, so that their failures could never go unnoticed.
		- It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land.
	www.piney.com /WisdSol.html (10152 words)

	SOPHIA SALOMONOS (WISDOM OF SOLOMON)
		Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba, and he succeeded David as king of Israel, ruling for about forty years in the middle of the tenth century BC.
		Solomon headed a large commercial empire, accumulating 700 wives (according to I Kings), many of whom represented diplomatic alliances.
		However, the WISDOM OF SOLOMON appears only to use him as a literary figure, while wisdom is personified as feminine.
	www.san.beck.org /WisdomSol.html (6572 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Today, the House is scheduled to vote on a resolution brought by Alabama Republican Mike Rogers that would restate the House's support for the Solomon Amendment.
		Rogers's move is a November ruling by the federal appeals court in Philadelphia in favor of a group of law schools and legal scholars that had contested the Solomon law.
		The 2-1 opinion found that the Solomon Amendment violates the schools' First Amendment rights to free speech and association.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110006239 (649 words)

	The Wisdom of Solomon
		But the Solomon Amendment, the 1996 brainchild of former New York GOP congressman Gerald Solomon, is now proving to be a notable exception.
		For some two decades, elite universities have barred the armed forces from their campuses because of both general disdain for the military and disagreement with their personnel policy on gays.
		Since Solomon became law, the Department of Defense has allowed schools to fulfill the amendment's requirements via technicalities (by allowing military recruiters to arrange off-campus meetings with students, etc.).
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/877bwexq.asp (591 words)

	Government Executive: The Wisdom of Solomon@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Government Executive: The Wisdom of Solomon@ HighBeam Research
		FCC enforcement chief David Solomon is the voice of legal reason in the middle of the great national decency debate.
		With his wire-rimmed spectacles, subdued tie and penchant for genealogy, David Solomon is the last guy you'd imagine spending time parsing the "F" word, listening to transcripts of radio broadcasts about oral sex and judging whether the publicly bared breast of a pop...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:94261827&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (151 words)

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