Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 1164
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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It is generally agreed that ‘Wisdom’ is not a ‘ person’, i.e. a being capable of exercising under- standing and will—a self-determining intelligence. What, then, is it? Is it an attribute of God personified? Personification is difficult to us: it is a device of the poet ; but to the Oriental mind it came easily enough. The O.T. contains numerous instances of the personification of the nation: Rachel is pictured as weeping for her children: ‘Ephraim hath grey hairs upon him, and he knoweth it not,’ says Hosea ; the nation is personified as the suffering servant in 2 Isaiah. The personifica…
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