1 [Justorum autem animæ in manu Dei sunt, et non tangent illos tormentum mortis. 2 Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, et æstimata est afflictio exitus illorum, 3 et quod a nobis est iter exterminium; illi autem sunt in pace: 4 etsi coram hominibus tormenta passi sunt, spes illorum immortalitate plena est. 5 In paucis vexati sunt, in multis bene disponentur, quoniam Deus tentavit eos, et invenit illos dignos se. 6 Tamquam aurum in fornace probavit illos, et quasi holocausti hostiam accepit illos, et in tempore erit respectus illorum. 7 Fulgebunt justi et tamquam scintillæ in arundineto discurrent. 8 Judicabunt nationes, et dominabuntur populis, et regnabit Dominus illorum in perpetuum. 9 Qui confidunt in illo intelligent veritatem, et fideles in dilectione acquiescent illi, quoniam donum et pax est electis ejus. 10 Impii autem secundum quæ cogitaverunt correptionem habebunt: qui neglexerunt justum, et a Domino recesserunt. 11 Sapientiam enim et disciplinam qui abjicit infelix est: et vacua est spes illorum, et labores sine fructu, et inutilia opera eorum. 12 Mulieres eorum insensatæ sunt, et nequissimi filii eorum. 13 Maledicta creatura eorum, quoniam felix est sterilis; et incoinquinata, quæ nescivit thorum in delicto, habebit fructum in respectione animarum sanctarum; 14 et spado qui non operatus est per manus suas iniquitatem, nec cogitavit adversus Deum nequissima: dabitur enim illi fidei donum electum, et sors in templo Dei acceptissima. 15 Bonorum enim laborum gloriosus est fructus, et quæ non concidat radix sapientiæ. 16 Filii autem adulterorum in inconsummatione erunt, et ab iniquo thoro semen exterminabitur. 17 Et si quidem longæ vitæ erunt, in nihilum computabuntur, et sine honore erit novissima senectus illorum: 18 et si celerius defuncti fuerint, non habebunt spem, nec in die agnitionis allocutionem. 19 Nationis enim iniquæ diræ sunt consummationes.]
Wisdom of Solomon · Clementine Vulgate
Wisdom of Solomon 3 Clementine Vulgate
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Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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Ye have read and heard, "As gold in the furnace hath He tried them, and received them as a burnt-offering." See what ye shall be among the treasures of God.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
For "the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God;" and if of the righteous, then those children's souls also; for neither are they wicked: and the souls too of sinners are straightway led away hence.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The divine Scripture likewise saith that the souls of the just are in God's hand and death cannot lay hold of them.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
Truly when the Scripture was speaking of persecution, it said, "Like gold in a furnace it hath proved them" (speaking of Martyrs being slain), "and as the holocaust's victim it hath received them." Hear how even the tongue of flatterers is of such sort: "The proving," he saith, "of silver and of gold is fire; but a man is proved …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… to those who sleep in the tomb, whom God hath not yet remembered: since the righteous are among the latter, of whom, even though God hath not yet called them to the resurrection, it is said, that their "souls are in the hands of God," that is, that "they dwell under the defence of the Most High; and shall abide …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)