...39,16.21.34. There are no further parallels to this passage. We should note WisSol 7,29f. on Wisdom: 'For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every...found to be superior, for it is succeeded by the night (TOOTO (lev vào ôiaôéxrtai vu!;), but against wisdom evil does not prevail'. Life in 2f. and light...

...hymn by the Holy Spirit. 43. See Wisd. Sol. 7:29, where Wisdom is compared with light: "She [Wisdom] is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation...Compared with the light she is found to be superior." 44. The Hebrew Bible (1 Sam. 2:5c) states: 'aqarah yaledah siv'ah. It is commonly translated "the barren...

...herself to renew everything. Inexplicably, she transcends the possibilities of the physical world. Compared with the light she is found to be superior,...the night. but against wisdom, evil does not prevail (7:29-30). Stronger than the powers of evil, she is the ruler and designer of the universe who governs...

...in every thought of theirs, she comes to meet them" (Wisdom 6:12, 16). Sophia is a liberator: "For she is more beautiful than the sun and excels every...the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail" (Wisdom 7:29-30, NRSV). Sophia is likewise an advocate of transformation: "For within Sophia is a spirit...

...things; In every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other and she orders all things well. Here she...

...1971), p. 196, n. 2. 10. Cf. Wisdom 7:290, 30: 'Wisdom is superior in comparison with light, for light is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail.' 11. See Introduction, p. 3. 12. Altbough they knew no baptism hut John's, it is improbable that Luke...

...friends of God, and prophets; 28 for God loves nothing so much as the man who lives with wisdom. 29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every...Compared with the light she is found to be superior, 30 for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail. 8.1 She reaches mightily...

...eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness.29° For [wisdom] is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation...succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil does not prevail.29' 1 became enamoured of her beauty.292 287 IM 12. 2'*' Wis 7:25-26. 288 IM 12 § 2. «' Wis...

.../ amicos Dei et prophetas 28 for God loves nothing so much as the man who lives with wisdom. 29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every...Compared with the light she is found to be superior, 30 for it is succeeded by the night, Jn 1:5; 16:33 but against wisdom evil does not prevail. 8'She...

...revealed. 1:5 Here also we have an echo of Wisdom: "Compared with the light iof the sun] she [Wisdom! is found to be superior, for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom evil Thus, here at the outset we have the two most fundamental affirmations about Jesus in this Gospel,...