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The Book of Wisdom or The Wisdom of Solomon 7:13 Commentary

1 historical voice

How the Church has read Wisdom 7:13 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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Quam sine fictione didici, et sine invidia communico, et honestatem illius non abscondo.

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John Damascene · 749 Excerpts (Historical Christian Faith …
THREE TREATISES ON DIVINE IMAGES 3:30
Everything that exists must give thanks to God, rendering him perpetual veneration, since all things have being from him and subsist in him. Without stint he gives a share of his gifts to all without being asked, and he wants everyone to be saved and to partake of his goodness. He is patient toward us sinners. He makes the sun rise on the righteous and the unrighteous and makes it rain on the bad and the good, also because for our sake the Son of God became like us, making us partakers of his divine nature, since we will be like him, as John the theologian says in the catholic epistle.
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