Where the Fathers quote Wisdom 7
10 citations across the Patrologia Graeca — from the printed citations of the English pass; every reference opens the page with its facsimile one tap away. · trace across the Tradition ›
1Wis 7:1
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1099A…ve dominion over the creatures which have been made by Thee, that he may order the world in equity and justice, and execute judgment in uprightness of heart.› Sap. vii, 1. — ‹For I myself also am a mortal man,…
2Wis 7:2
Epiphanius of Salamis c. 340–404PG 41:939D…nius introduced, the reasoning of some who thought that Christ remained in the womb of His mother for fewer days from the tenth month, because it is written at Sap. vii, 2: Coagulated in blood after ten months…
3Wis 7:3
Gregory of Nazianzus c. 329–390PG 36:843B…ng through all things of the spirits, intellectual... (E.) ...others distributed elsewhere, by which the uncircumscribed is shown.) Ad haec Elias f. 183, r. m. Sap. 7, 3. He praises and observes this: He demon…
4Wis 7:4
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:27C…Do you see how by the communion of passions he demonstrates that he is a man like us? And again: "For I also am a man, subject to the same sufferings as you" (Sap. VII, 4). And this pledges a communion of natur…
6Wis 7:6
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 83:1187B…is He who passed the sentence, and experience is a witness. For there is one entry for all into life, according to the divine Scripture, and a like departure (Sap. VII, 6), and everyone who is born awaits the g…
9Wis 7:9
Athanasius of Alexandria c. 296–373PG 28:1039B…xxx, 8]. But he cared more for Wisdom, wherefore he cries out and says: "I chose to have her instead of gold and silver; I loved her above health and beauty" [Sap. vii, 9, 10]. Whence, then, so many garments fo…
13Wis 7:13
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:331B…be moderate, lest the transformation exceed its measure. TIT. III. — Of wise and prudent men; and that they ought always to be ready to assist others. Sap. VII, 13. — "I learned without guile, and I impa…
17Wis 7:17
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:557D…mals and the tempers of wild beasts, the differences of plants and the powers of roots, as many things as are hidden and manifest, I learned," says I, the man (Sap. 7.17-21). How did the image learn? For the craf…
25Wis 7:25
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 17:743C…er in nothing. For He is the image of His goodness, and the splendor, not of God, but of His glory, and of His eternal light, and the vapor, not of the Father (Sap. VII, 25, 26), but of His power, and the unspott…
26Wis 7:26
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:11…bring forward only one passage in which the author openly pours out the venom of the Arian heresy. For, after he refers to Christ that passage of Wisdom VII, 26: Splendor is the light eternal, and the unspotted mirror o…