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The Wisdom of Solomon uses the Septuagint version of Isaiah, demonstrating a direct literary dependence. The quoted text is very different in the Hebrew version of Isaiah, indicating that the author was working with the Greek version.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
LXX Isaiah 3:10
Septuagint
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient as they are toward the Lord; therefore now their glory has been brought low. 9 And the shame of their face has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest. Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, 10 saying, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore they will eat the fruits of their works. 11 Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands. 12 my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
Wisdom of Solomon 2:12
Deuterocanon
10 Let’s oppress the righteous poor. Let’s not spare the widow, nor regard the gray hair of the old man. 11 But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless. 12 But let’s lie in wait for the righteous man, because he annoys us, is contrary to our works, reproaches us with sins against the law, and charges us with sins against our training. 13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. 14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.
Date: 50 BCE – 50 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Virtually a quotation from the LXX version of Isaiah 3:10, where the Hebrew is quite different. It is quoted by many of the Church Fathers, following its citation in Barnabas 6:7, as referring to Christ; compare Justin Martyr Dial. 17; Eusebius PE 13.13; Clement of Alexandria Stromata 5.14 (where Plato's Republic 361 is also quoted: 'The just man will have to endure the lash, the rock, chains, the branding-iron in his eyes, and finally, after every extremity of suffering, he will be crucified'); Augustine City of God 17.20.1: 'In one of these books that is called the Wisdom of Solomon Christ's passion is most clearly prophesied. For surely it is his wicked slayers who are recorded as saying: 'Let us set an ambush for the righteous man ...' The seventeenth-century commentator C. Lapide saw in the 'shameful death' of verse 20 a direct allusion to the cross, and in the word achrestos ('ineffectual') of verse 11 an insulting play on the name Christos ..."
David Winston, The Wisdom of Solomon: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979), 119.
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