"... "Jewish authors could picture Wisdom, the personified word of YHWH, looking to dwell among the people but struggling to find a place, until she took up residence in Israel (see Proverbs 8.22-31, Wisdom of Solomon 8.4; 9.9). According to Sirach, the figure of Wisdom comes to dwell permanently among humans, specifically in the Temple at Jerusalem, depositing the divine word and divine glory in Israel's midst. However, in 1 Enoch, the picture is darker: Wisdom had been trying to find somewhere to live, but finding none, she went back home. In her absence Iniquity went out and found somewhere to dwell and turn what should have been Wisdom's home into a den of iniquity. Consequently, there is now no hope for the world, or Israel, or individual humans. John's development of this same theme is of a different order altogether. He agrees with Sirach that the divine Wisdom does indeed find a home. He recognizes, and takes on board, the tragedy that lies behind 1 Enoch 42: the world did not know the logos, its creator, and even 'his own people did not receive him'. But this did not make him return home, having abandoned the world to iniquity. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. The logos has come, as mainstream Judaism fully expected, but not to judge the world but to redeem it ..."