Wisdom - Sapientia

19 chapters • 117 verses

Sapientia

19 chapters • 117 verses

16 verses

An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and desireth not our death.

25 verses

The vain reasonings of the wicked: their persecuting the just, especially the Son of God.

19 verses

The happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked.

20 verses

The difference between the chaste and the adulterous generations: and between the death of the just and the wicked.

24 verses

The fruitless repentance of the wicked in another world: the reward of the just.

27 verses

An address to princes to seek after wisdom: she is easily found by those that seek her.

30 verses

The excellence of wisdom: how she is to be found.

21 verses

Further praises of wisdom: and her fruits.

19 verses

Solomon's prayer for wisdom.

21 verses

What wisdom did for Adam, Noe, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, and the people of Israel.

27 verses

Other benefits of wisdom to the people of God.

27 verses

God's wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with the Chanaanites.

19 verses

Idolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all that worship for gods the works of the hands of men.

31 verses

The beginning of worshipping idols: and the effects thereof.

19 verses

The servants of God praise him who hath delivered them from idolatry; condemning both the makers and the worshippers of idols.

29 verses

God's different dealings with the Egyptians and with his own people.

20 verses

The Egyptian darkness.

Capitulum XVIII

25 verses

The slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt: the efficacy of Aaron's intercession, in the sedition on occasion of Core.

20 verses

Why God shewed no mercy to the Egyptians. His favour to the Israelites. All creatures obey God's orders for the service of the good, and the punishment of the wicked.