Wisdom of Solomon 7:27

Deuterocanon

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. 29 She is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with the light she is found to be superior,

Luke 7:35

New Testament

33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35 But wisdom is vindicated by all her children. 36 Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37 Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

 Notes and References

"... God's wise, salvific plan has become madness or foolishness for some of Jesus' contemporaries; his wisdom is manifested as a mother whose children are not only John and Jesus, but "all" the people who, like toll-collectors and sinners, are willing to listen to John or Jesus. Wisdom is here personified. She sends out her messengers like prophets, and they are rejected (see Wisdom of Solomon 7:27). Both John and Jesus arrive as such on the Palestinian scene with a critical, eschatological message, and what they announce, heard at first as insane and offensive, turns out to be the mark of Wisdom. The "people of this generation'' turn out to be not the children of Wisdom, but sulking spoilsports who fail to recognize her ..."

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Gospel According to Luke: Introduction, Translation, and Notes (p. 681) Doubleday, 1981

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