NOTES for Wis 11:22-12:2
22 For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth. |
23 But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend. |
24 For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it. |
25 And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee? |
26 But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls. |
1 For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things. |
2 Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord. |
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The man who wrote the Book of Wisdom was a great prophet. Around him he saw not only a beautiful world, but also a world of sickness, war and death. Like us, he knew that little of value grows in our world from hatred and malice, yet they do not become any less common. Nevertheless, he wrote: “You love all things that exist and abhor nothing that You have made, for You would not have made anything if You had hated it.” He had a presentiment, and we now know, that God is so far from abhorring what He created that He became man and died in order to save creation from death.
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For Wis 11:25
25 And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee? |
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