Wisdom of Solomon · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Wisdom of Solomon 10 Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Notes on this text (1)
- Includes the books not found in the Hebrew Bible (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, 1–3 Maccabees, 2 and 3 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh), as in the Synodal editions.
1 Она сохраняла первозданного отца мира, который сотворен был один, и спасала его от собственного его падения:
1 Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone, and delivered him out of his own transgression,
2 она дала ему силу владычествовать над всем.
2 and gave him strength to rule over all things.
3 А отступивший от нее неправедный во гневе своем погиб от братоубийственной ярости.
3 But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, he perished himself in the rage with which he killed his brother.
4 Ради него потопляемую землю опять премудрость спасла, сохранив праведника посредством малого дерева.
4 When for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood, wisdom again saved it, guiding the righteous man’s course by a paltry piece of wood.
5 Она же между народами, смешанными в единомыслии зла, нашла праведника и соблюла его неукоризненным пред Богом, и сохранила мужественным в жалости к сыну.
5 Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded, wisdom knew the righteous man, and preserved him blameless to God, and kept him strong when his heart yearned toward his child.
6 Она во время погибели нечестивых спасла праведного, который избежал огня, нисшедшего на пять городов,
6 While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom delivered a righteous man, when he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on the five cities.
7 от которых во свидетельство нечестия осталась дымящаяся пустая земля и растения, не в свое время приносящие плоды, и памятником неверной души - стоящий соляной столб.
7 To whose wickedness a smoking waste still witnesses, and plants bearing fair fruit that doesn’t ripen, a disbelieving soul has a memorial: a standing pillar of salt.
8 Ибо они, презрев премудрость, не только повредили себе тем, что не познали добра, но и оставили живущим память о своем безумии, дабы не могли скрыть того, в чем заблудились.
8 For having passed wisdom by, not only were they disabled from recognising the things which are good, but they also left behind them for their life a monument of their folly, to the end that where they stumbled, they might fail even to be unseen;
9 Премудрость же спасла от бед служащих ей.
9 but wisdom delivered those who waited on her out of troubles.
10 Праведного, бежавшего от братнего гнева, она наставляла на правые пути, показала ему царство Божие и даровала ему познание святых, помогала ему в огорчениях и обильно вознаградила труды его.
10 When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, wisdom guided him in straight paths. She showed him God’s kingdom, and gave him knowledge of holy things. She prospered him in his toils, and multiplied the fruits of his labor.
11 Когда из корыстолюбия обижали его, она предстала и обогатила его,
11 When in their covetousness men dealt harshly with him, she stood by him and made him rich.
12 сохранила его от врагов, и обезопасила от коварствовавших против него, и в крепкой борьбе доставила ему победу, дабы он знал, что благочестие всего сильнее.
12 She guarded him from enemies, and she kept him safe from those who lay in wait. Over his severe conflict, she watched as judge, that he might know that godliness is more powerful than every one.
13 Она не оставила проданного праведника, но спасла его от греха:
13 When a righteous man was sold, wisdom didn’t forsake him, but she delivered him from sin. She went down with him into a dungeon,
14 она нисходила с ним в ров и не оставляла его в узах, и потом принесла ему скипетр царства и власть над угнетавшими его, показала лжецами обвинявших его и даровала ему вечную славу.
14 and in bonds she didn’t depart from him, until she brought him the sceptre of a kingdom, and authority over those that dealt like a tyrant with him. She also showed those who had mockingly accused him to be false, and gave him eternal glory.
15 Она освободила святой народ и непорочное семя от народа угнетавших его,
15 Wisdom delivered a holy people and a blameless seed from a nation of oppressors.
16 вошла в душу служителя Господня и противостала страшным царям чудесами и знамениями.
16 She entered into the soul of a servant of the Lord, and withstood terrible kings in wonders and signs.
17 Она воздала святым награду за труды их, вела их путем дивным; и днем была им покровом, а ночью - звездным светом.
17 She rendered to holy men a reward of their toils. She guided them along a marvelous way, and became to them a covering in the day-time, and a starry flame through the night.
18 Она перевела их чрез Чермное море и провела их сквозь большую воду,
18 She brought them over the Red sea, and led them through much water;
19 а врагов их потопила и извергла их из глубины бездны.
19 but she drowned their enemies, and she cast them up from the bottom of the deep.
20 Итак, праведные завладели доспехами нечестивых и воспели святое имя Твое, Господи, и единодушно прославили поборающую руку Твою;
20 Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly, and they sang praise to your holy name, O Lord, and extolled with one accord your hand that fought for them,
21 ибо премудрость отверзла уста немых и сделала внятными языки младенцев.
21 because wisdom opened the mouth of the mute, and made the tongues of babes to speak clearly.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… the Emperor Julian, there was a law made by which Christians were forbidden to teach grammar and oratory, and he, in obedience to this law, chose rather to abandon the wordy school than Thy word, by which Thou makest eloquent the tongues of the dumb, --he appeared to me not more brave than happy, in having thus discovered an opportunity …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… disdained not to listen to him, but even admitted his opinion, and was persuaded, and recorded it; and was not ashamed to hand down the circumstances to history; casting down [so] the pride of the many. Wherefore also he left this story to the world engraven as it were on a pillar, for he knew that it would be useful …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)