“... The child here is none other than Isaac, and the colon recalls the Aqedah (Binding) or near-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham in Genesis 22 as a test of his faith. Again, as in verse 2a, there is a repetition of the root in the adjective, “strong,” “mighty.” The verb, “she guarded,” recalls the similar form found in verse 1b. When taken with the preceding adjective, the verb is intensified. Thus, instead of merely guarding Abraham, Wisdom “guards him intently” and “keeps him strong.” The word in verse 5c literally means “entrails.” For the ancients, the entrails or “innards” were the seat of emotion. The Greek word here may reflect the Hebrew word, “mercy,” “compassion,” which is often associated with parental tenderness. Abraham was frequently held up in Jewish tradition as a model of parental love since his affection for Isaac was so great (compare 4 Maccabees 14:20). Here, however, Wisdom protects Abraham from his paternal love or affection for his son and in so doing presumably strengthens his love for God which enables him to obey the Almighty ...”

“... One final passage in the Apocrypha deserves mention. This is the verse from the account of the manifestations of Wisdom in the history of redemption in the Wisdom of Solomon, a book that seems to date from about the late first century B.C.E. or early first century C.E. It was Wisdom, the book relates, that “knew the just man and kept him blameless before God, and preserved him resolute against pity for his child” (Wisdom of Solomon 10:5). This is one of only two points from the life of Abraham deemed worthy of mention, the other being Wisdom”s rescue of the Patriarch from the destruction of the Cities of the Plain (verse 6). It is in the Wisdom of Solomon that we find the most explicit reference to the aqedah in the Apocrypha, a point owing to the increasing interest in the episode in Judaism in the first century ...”