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Chapter 1 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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From Wisdom · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Wisdom Chapter 1 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The opening poetic or argumentative words retain their speaker and exact scope. The edition’s commentary is explicitly separated from the verses and additional theology is removed. Closing invitations, conditions and plans remain distinct from reported outcomes.

Chapter breakdown

Wisdom 1 tells earth’s judges to love justice, think of Lord in goodness and seek with simple heart. He is found by those not tempting Him and shows Himself to faithful. Perverse thoughts separate, tested power reproves unwise; wisdom will not enter malicious soul or sin-subject body. Holy Spirit of discipline flees deceitful, leaves thoughts without understanding and does not abide with iniquity. Benevolent wisdom-spirit does not acquit evil speaker, God witnessing reins, searching heart and hearing tongue. Lord’s Spirit filled the world and all-containing knows voice. Unjust speakers cannot hide from chastising judgment, ungodly thoughts will undergo inquiry and words come to God for chastisement. Jealous ear hears all, murmuring cannot hide.

Avoid useless murmuring and detraction; obscure speech is not nothing, lying mouth kills soul. Do not seek death by life error or handworks destruction. The passage says God made not death or delighted in living destruction, made things to be, nations for health without destructive poison or hell’s kingdom on earth. Justice is perpetual and immortal. Wicked called it by works and words, esteemed it friend, fell away and covenanted as worthy participants. These remain the passage’s assertions; no clinical account of every death’s cause, metaphysical abstract-wisdom contrast or universal original biological immunity is added.

The story inside

Opening: The opening poetic or argumentative words retain their speaker and exact scope. Development: The edition’s commentary is explicitly separated from the verses and additional theology is removed. Conclusion: Closing invitations, conditions and plans remain distinct from reported outcomes.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    The opening poetic or argumentative words retain their speaker and exact scope.
  2. 2
    The edition’s commentary is explicitly separated from the verses and additional theology is removed.
  3. 3
    Closing invitations, conditions and plans remain distinct from reported outcomes.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

  1. Lines 71547–71548

    1:1. Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart:
  2. Lines 71587–71588

    1:13. For God made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

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