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The Book of Wisdom or The Wisdom of Solomon 5:2 Commentary

1 historical voice

How the Church has read Wisdom 5:2 across two millennia — Matthew Henry, John Calvin, Augustine of Hippo, John Chrysostom and more, gathered verse by verse from the public domain.

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Videntes turbabuntur timore horribili, et mirabuntur in subitatione insperatæ salutis ;

Voices across the centuries

Church Fathers 1

Fulgentius of Ruspe · 533 Excerpts (Historical Christian Faith …
ON THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS 2:3.1-2
No one, when reading that the wicked will marvel at the sudden appearance of an unexpected salvation, should think that for those who end the present life in sin, salvation will sooner or later be conferred on them by divine gift. It in fact calls the salvation of the righteous unexpected, because if the wicked do not hope that it will be given to them, it nevertheless remains for the righteous, who do hope for it. Thus blessed David, in a psalm, sang of the hope and of the salvation of the righteous as a single reality, saying, “The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord, their refuge in time of distress. The Lord comes to their help and rescues them. He frees them from the godless and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.”
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