Wisdom of Solomon 7:22
21 I learned both what is secret and what is manifest, 22 for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me. There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, 23 beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle. 24 For wisdom is more mobile than any motion; because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things. 25 For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her. 26 For she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. 27 Although she is but one, she can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things; in every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets; 28 for God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
Colossians 1:15
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, 16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him—all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers—all things were created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things, and all things are held together in him. 18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son 20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross—through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
Notes and References
"... I have argued that Wisdom of Solomon functions as a background source for New Testament Christology, particularly in terms of the place of wisdom in the biblical doctrine of creation, particularly with respect to Colossians 1:15–17 and Hebrews 1:2–3. A passage we have already examined, Wisdom of Solomon 7:22–8:6, in its depiction of wisdom, has several points of connection with these two New Testament passages ... Beginning with Colossians 1:15–17, we find a connection between Christ the “image of the invisible God” in Colossians 1:15 and wisdom as an “image of [God’s] goodness” in Wisdom of Solomon 7:26. Moreover, Colossians 1:16 states that “all things were created in him”, mirroring the notion that wisdom is the “fashioner of all things” in Wisdom of Solomon 7:21 (compare 8:6) and the “active cause of all things” in 8:5. Finally, Colossians 1:17 affirms that “in him all things hold together”, a thought echoed in language the speaks of wisdom as that which “pervades and penetrates all things” (Wisdom of Solomon 7:24), “renews all things” (7:27), and “reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other” (8:1). Ideas predicated of wisdom map well onto the portrayal of Christ in Colossians 1:15–17 ..."
Lamp, Jeffrey Wisdom Pneumatology and the Creative Spirit: The Book of Wisdom and the Trinitarian Act of Creation (pp. 39-56) ORU Journal of Theology Volume 2 Number 2, 2017