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In Matthew 6, Jesus describes following the kingdom of God as the priority from which all else is added, language similar to the Wisdom of Solomon, which describes wisdom as the central pursuit through which every good thing comes.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Wisdom of Solomon 7:11
Deuterocanon
9 Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold in her presence is a little sand, and silver will be considered as clay before her. 10 I loved her more than health and beauty, and I chose to have her rather than light, because her bright shining is never laid to sleep. 11 All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches are in her hands. 12 And I rejoiced over them all because wisdom leads them; although I didn’t know that she was their mother. 13 As I learned without guile, I impart without grudging. I don’t hide her riches.
Date: 50 BCE – 50 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
Matthew 6:33
New Testament
31 So then, don’t worry saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.
Date: 70–90 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... General background for this statement is forthcoming in 3 Kings 3:13 (“Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore”); 3 Kings 4:21–24; Wisdom 7:11; and Matthew 6:33 ..."
Jan M. Ziolkowski, Solomon and Marcolf (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 181.
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