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The Christian theologian Augustine uses the Wisdom of Solomon as an authoritative source for teaching, quoting it in the City of God and repeating its description of the weakness of human reasoning.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE

Wisdom of Solomon 9:14

Deuterocanon
12 So my works will be acceptable. I will judge your people righteously, and I will be worthy of my father’s throne. 13 For what man will know the counsel of God? Or who will conceive what the Lord wills? 14 For the thoughts of mortals are unstable, and our plans are prone to fail. 15 For a corruptible body weighs down the soul. The earthy tent burdens a mind that is full of cares. 16 We can hardly guess the things that are on earth, and we find the things that are close at hand with labor; but who has traced out the things that are in the heavens?
Date: 100-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)

Augustine, City of God 22.29

On the City of God Against the Pagans
Early Christian
But since we do not know what degree of perfection the spiritual body will attain — for here we speak of a matter of which we have no experience, and on which the authority of Scripture does not definitely pronounce — it is necessary that the words of the Book of Wisdom be exemplified in us: “The thoughts of mortal men are timid, and our foresight uncertain.”
Date: 426 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References

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"... In affirming the canonicity of the two ‘Solomonic’ books not written by Solomon, Augustine says of Wisdom and Sirach “the Church especially in the West has accepted them as authoritative from antiquity”; City of God 17.20). A survey of patristic comments on the liturgical use of what Rufinus called the ecclesiastical books bears out Augustine’s geographical distinction. Eastern sources restrict the liturgical use of documents to the books of the Jewish canon. Cyril of Jerusalem (Catechesis 4.36–38) emphatically asserts that only the 22 books accepted by the Jews find a place in Christian liturgy, and he advises catechumens to maintain this standard in their private reading. Athanasius (Festal Letters 39) assigns the ecclesiastical books the role of elementary instruction in the faith, as do the Apostolic Canons (canon 85); this position seems to discount their use in the liturgy. The Council of Laodicea is more explicit; in the same context in which it limits the OT canon to 22 books ... However, the matter stood differently among Latin writers: Jerome, Rufinus, and Augustine all affirm that the ecclesiastical books are used in the corporate worship of the Church ... if the Church reads a ‘scriptural’ book, it is a canonical book. Similarly, Augustine responds to the objection of some that the Book of Wisdom is not canonical by arguing that its employment in the liturgy implies its divine authority ..."
Gallagher, Edmon L. Hebrew Scripture in Patristic Biblical Theory: Canon, Language, Text (pp. 54-55) Brill, 2012

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