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The Christian theologian Augustine uses the Wisdom of Solomon as an authoritative source for teaching, referring to it as scripture while repeating its description of the limits of human reason, showing how he was influenced by Jewish traditions.
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Wisdom of Solomon 9:15

Deuterocanon
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? 17 Who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom, and sent your holy spirit from on high?
Date: 100-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)

Augustine, City of God 13.16

On the City of God Against the Pagans
Early Christian
But the philosophers against whom we are defending the city of God, that is, His Church, think they have good cause to deride us, because we say that the separation of the soul from the body is to be held as part of man's punishment. For they suppose that the blessedness of the soul is complete only when it is entirely stripped of the body, and returns to God a pure and simple, and, as it were, naked soul. On this point, if I found nothing in their own literature to refute this opinion, I would be forced to demonstrate laboriously that it is not the body, but the corruptibility of the body, which is a burden to the soul. This is the point of that sentence of Scripture we quoted in an earlier book, “For the corruptible body presses down the soul.”
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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