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Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 1.2


לָדַעַת חָכְמָה וּמוּסָר לְהָבִין אִמְרֵי בִינָה׃To know wisdom and instruction; To comprehend the words of understanding;


חָכְמוֹת בַּחוּץ תָּרֹנָּה בָּרְחֹבוֹת תִּתֵּן קוֹלָהּ׃To know wisdom and instruction; To comprehend the words of understanding;


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 1, 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 3, 3.18, 4, 5, 6, 7, 22.17-24.22 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

2. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 111.10 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

111.10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they that do thereafter; His praise endureth for ever."
3. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 39.3, 51.21 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

39.3. he will seek out the hidden meanings of proverbs and be at home with the obscurities of parables. 39.3. the teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions and vipers,and the sword that punishes the ungodly with destruction; 51.21. My heart was stirred to seek her,therefore I have gained a good possession.
4. Philo of Alexandria, On Husbandry, 9, 8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

8. First of all, therefore, the husbandman is not anxious to plant or to sow anything that is unproductive, but only all such things as are worth cultivation, and as bear fruit, which will bring a yearly produce to their master man. For nature has pointed him out as the master of all trees and animals, and all other things whatever which are perishable;
5. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 98, 97 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

97. Therefore he exhorts him who is able to run swiftly to strain onwards, without stopping to take breath, to the highest word of God, which is the fountain of wisdom, in order that by drinking of that stream he may find everlasting life instead of death. But he urges him who is not so swift of foot to flee for refuge to the creative power which Moses calls God, since it is by that power that all things were made and arranged; for to him who comprehends that everything has been created, that comprehension alone, and the knowledge of the Creator, is a great acquisition of good, which immediately persuades the creature to love him who created it.
6. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.159 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Philo of Alexandria, Questions On Genesis, 1.6, 4.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 8.143, 8.148-8.149 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8.143. Moreover, the king of Tyre sent sophisms and enigmatical sayings to Solomon, and desired he would solve them, and free them from the ambiguity that was in them. Now so sagacious and understanding was Solomon, that none of these problems were too hard for him; but he conquered them all by his reasonings, and discovered their hidden meaning, and brought it to light. 8.148. He says also, that Solomon, who was then king of Jerusalem, sent riddles to Hiram, and desired to receive the like from him, but that he who could not solve them should pay money to them that did solve them 8.149. and that Hiram accepted the conditions; and when he was not able to solve the riddles proposed by Solomon, he paid a great deal of money for his fine; but that he afterward did solve the proposed riddles by means of Abdemon, a man of Tyre; and that Hiram proposed other riddles, which, when Solomon could not solve, he paid back a great deal of money to Hiram.” This it is which Dius wrote.
9. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 1.18, 1.21, 1.24, 2.1, 2.4, 2.6, 2.6-3.4, 2.7, 3.18, 4.10, 8.1, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.18. For the word of the cross isfoolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is thepower of God.
10. New Testament, Hebrews, 5.12-5.14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5.12. For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 5.13. For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 5.14. But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
11. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 1.12 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

12. Ambrose, Jacob And The Happy Life, 1.1.4 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

13. Augustine, The City of God, 6.2 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

6.2. Who has investigated those things more carefully than Marcus Varro? Who has discovered them more learnedly? Who has considered them more attentively? Who has distinguished them more acutely? Who has written about them more diligently and more fully?- who, though he is less pleasing in his eloquence, is nevertheless so full of instruction and wisdom, that in all the erudition which we call secular, but they liberal, he will teach the student of things as much as Cicero delights the student of words. And even Tully himself renders him such testimony, as to say in his Academic books that he had held that disputation which is there carried on with Marcus Varro, a man, he adds, unquestionably the acutest of all men, and, without any doubt, the most learned. He does not say the most eloquent or the most fluent, for in reality he was very deficient in this faculty, but he says, of all men the most acute. And in those books - that is, the Academic - where he contends that all things are to be doubted, he adds of him, without any doubt the most learned. In truth, he was so certain concerning this thing, that he laid aside that doubt which he is wont to have recourse to in all things, as if, when about to dispute in favor of the doubt of the Academics, he had, with respect to this one thing, forgotten that he was an Academic. But in the first book, when he extols the literary works of the same Varro, he says, Us straying and wandering in our own city like strangers, your books, as it were, brought home, that at length we might come to know of who we were and where we were. You have opened up to us the age of the country, the distribution of seasons, the laws of sacred things, and of the priests; you have opened up to us domestic and public discipline; you have pointed out to us the proper places for religious ceremonies, and has informed us concerning sacred places. You have shown us the names, kinds, offices, causes of all divine and human things. This man, then, of so distinguished and excellent acquirements, and, as Terentian briefly says of him in a most elegant verse, Varro, a man universally informed, who read so much that we wonder when he had time to write, wrote so much that we can scarcely believe any one could have read it all - this man, I say, so great in talent, so great in learning, had he had been an opposer and destroyer of the so-called divine things of which he wrote, and had he said that they pertained to superstition rather than to religion, might perhaps, even in that case, not have written so many things which are ridiculous, contemptible, detestable. But when he so worshipped these same gods, and so vindicated their worship, as to say, in that same literary work of his, that he was afraid lest they should perish, not by an assault by enemies, but by the negligence of the citizens, and that from this ignominy they are being delivered by him, and are being laid up and preserved in the memory of the good by means of such books, with a zeal far more beneficial than that through which Metellus is declared to have rescued the sacred things of Vesta from the flames, and Æneas to have rescued the Penates from the burning of Troy; and when he nevertheless, gives forth such things to be read by succeeding ages as are deservedly judged by wise and unwise to be unfit to be read, and to be most hostile to the truth of religion; what ought we to think but that a most acute and learned man - not, however made free by the Holy Spirit - was overpowered by the custom and laws of his state, and, not being able to be silent about those things by which he was influenced, spoke of them under pretence of commending religion?


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
ambrose of milan Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
archon Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
augustine, on divination Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
bible (hebrew bible and/or new testament) Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
caesarius of arles Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
christ, see also jesus Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
constellations, on scriptural interpretation Ward, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian (2022) 185
corinthians Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
crucifixion Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
disciplina(e) Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
divination Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
divine speech, enigmatic Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 233
education, pedagogy Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
education and religion Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
enigmatic speech, graeco-roman oracular and prophetic, pedagogic Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 233
ennoia Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
ethical education, judaism Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
exegesis Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184
fear, of god/lord Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184
fox, michael Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 47
gnosis, knowledge Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
god Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
hebrew bible Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 47
hypostasis, neoplatonic Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 54
instruction genre, egyptian Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
jesus, philo Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
jewish wisdom, torah related to Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 54
judaism Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
julianus pomerius Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
knowledge, shared Buster, Remembering the Story of Israel Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism (2022) 228
knowledge Buster, Remembering the Story of Israel Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism (2022) 228; Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 47; Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
life, tree of Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
life Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
logos-theology Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184
mantic arts or disciplines Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
memory, treasury/storehouse metaphor Ward, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian (2022) 185
neoplatonists, plotinus Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 54
parabolē Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184
paul Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
proof Osborne, Clement of Alexandria (2010) 191
prophets, jewish, proverbs, book of Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
protagoras, proverbs, book of Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 47
proverbs, near eastern Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
psychic adam/eve/body, class Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
recollection (ἀνάμνησις), as a hunt/search (θηρᾶν) Ward, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian (2022) 185
religion, education and Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
rhythm Buster, Remembering the Story of Israel Historical Summaries and Memory Formation in Second Temple Judaism (2022) 228
righteousness Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184
rulers Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
salvation/soteriology Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
sapientia Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
scientia Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 123
sethians, sethianism Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
sophia, see also prunicus, wisdom, zoe Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
spiritual, class Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
torah, jewish wisdom related to Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 54
torah Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
trinity (trinitarian doctrine, trinitarianism) Heo, Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages (2023) 54
wisdom) Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184
wisdom, concept Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
wisdom, jewish Rasimus, Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence (2009) 131
wisdom, wisdom literature, distinctiveness' Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
wisdom, wisdom literature Damm, Religions and Education in Antiquity (2018) 29
wisdom literature Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 47; Černušková, Kovacs and Plátová, Clement’s Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (2016) 184