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WISDOM IN THE THRONE

These characteristics if Wisdom are further developed by writers of this Egyptian Jewish Document.

6:22b I will trace her course from the beginning of creation.

7:21 I learnt both what is secret and what is manifest, for Wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me.

22 For in her is a spirit that is intelligent, holy unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving and good, keen, irresistible.

23 Beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all the spirits that are intelligent and pure and most subtle.

24 For Wisdom is more mobile than any motion, because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.

25 For she is the breath of the power of G-D, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty, therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into Her.

26 For she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror, of the working of G-D and an image of His goodness.

29 For she is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with light she is found to be superior.

8:3 She glorifies her noble birth by living with G-D, and the Lord of all loves her.

An important part of these ascriptions is the cosmogenic role of Wisdom which grew from Prov. 8: She is declared "the fashioner of all things." (7:21; cf 8:6)

Her cosmogenic role is reinforced by the epithets "all powerful" (7;23) and "a breath of the power of G-D." (7:25)

In Prov. 9 1-2, She is identified as the "word" that creates all things.

For Philo, Wisdom was a cosmic principle, a being who existed before creation and was instrumental in "birthing" the creation and "mothering" it. (Ebr 30-31; Fug 109; Quod Det 54; cf. Virt 62)

Although Philo melds Wisdom with Logos in some places (Conf 146; Lgg All 1:43), in Ebr 30-31 He calls Wisdom the mother of Logos with the implication that G-D is Her husband.

In other texts he indicates that Wisdom is the model from which the physical world is copied. (Leg All 1:43; cf Leg 2:49).

... Specifically in the creation of Man, is found in 2 Enoch (1st CE 30:8), "and on the 6th day I commanded my Wisdom to create man out of the 7 components.

2: And earth assigned Him (man: Adam) to be a second angel, honoured and great and glorious.

12: and I assigned Him to be a king, to reign on the earth, and to have my Wisdom.

Wisdom of Solomon: (9:1) O G-D of my fathers and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things by your word, (2) and by your Wisdom has formed man to have dominion over the creatures you have made ...