This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... fact will well account for the phase of the last part of the book of Wisdom. The book may have been written in Philo's time, for he was born some twenty or twenty-five years B. c.; but clearly it was not written by him; at least if diversity in the style, and in the manner of treating subjects, can ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... fact will well account for the phase of the last part of the book of Wisdom. The book may have been written in Philo's time, for he was born some twenty or twenty-five years B. c.; but clearly it was not written by him; at least if diversity in the style, and in the manner of treating subjects, can decide anything in respect to such a question. The probability is, therefore, that some pious Jew, whose name is not given, either not long before, or else a little after the birth of Christ, wrote the book of Wisdom. It is singular, indeed, that his book is so free from all expressions, which might help to determine the exact period in which he lived. At all events, however, while we have abundance of manifest tokens that he meant to tread in the steps of Solomon, inasmuch as he had assumed his name, we yet see, in the most convincing manner, how insufficient Grecian art and philosophy are, to enable a writer to imitate the genuine Hebrew authors, who were under the leadings of divine inspiration. The deep conviction of all this, which the study of the book of Wisdom gives, is enough to repay the reader amply for the labor which that study costs. 16. General Remarks on the Proverbs of the Hebrews. We have now come to a position, in which we can survey to advantage the ground of proverbial lore among the Hebrews. We have seen how very extensive it was, even so early as the days of Solomon, "who spake three thousand proverbs," 1 Kings 5: 32. Nothing is plainer than that, when the book of Proverbs was written, or at any rate when it was finally completed, there were great multitudes of proverbs which had been originated by others, as well as by Solomon, and which were then current among the Hebrews. The work of Jesus Sirach shows us a...
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