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Wisdom of Solomon declares that knowing God is the root of immortality, joining knowledge with righteousness and life. John echoes this language by defining eternal life as knowing the only true God and Jesus who was sent by him.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Wisdom of Solomon 15:3
Deuterocanon
1 But you, our God, are gracious and true, patient, and in mercy ordering all things. 2 For even if we sin, we are yours, knowing your dominion; but we will not sin, knowing that we have been accounted yours. 3 For to be acquainted with you is perfect righteousness, and to know your dominion is the root of immortality. 4 For we weren’t led astray by any evil plan of men’s, nor yet by painters’ fruitless labor, a form stained with varied colors, 5 the sight of which leads fools into lust. Their desire is for the breathless form of a dead image. 6 Lovers of evil things, and worthy of such hopes, are those who make, desire, and worship them.
Date: 50 BCE – 50 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
John 17:3
New Testament
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you— 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life—that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
Date: 90–110 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... 'This is eternal life: that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you have sent, Jesus Christ' ... It is unclear whether verse 3 is attributed to Jesus or if it is intended as a comment or exclamation by the evangelist. Compare with Wisdom of Solomon 15:3 ..."
Laurent Cleenewerck, The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible Based on the Septuagint and the Patriarchal Text (Euclid University, 2013), 270.
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