Is Wisdom a real person?

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I believe Wisdom is an Being/Angel that is at Gods throne. Here is why…

New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Wisdom 9:4 Give me Wisdom, the consort at your throne,
and do not reject me from among your children;

Wisdom 7:22-30
for Wisdom, the artisan of all, taught me.
For in her is a spirit
intelligent, holy, unique,
Manifold, subtle, agile,
clear, unstained, certain,
Never harmful, loving the good, keen,
23 unhampered, beneficent, kindly,
Firm, secure, tranquil,
all-powerful, all-seeing,
And pervading all spirits,
though they be intelligent, pure and very subtle.

24 For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion,
and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity.
25 For she is a breath of the might of God
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled can enter into her.
26 For she is the reflection of eternal light,
the spotless mirror of the power of God,
the image of his goodness.
27 Although she is one, she can do all things,
and she renews everything while herself perduring;
Passing into holy souls from age to age,
she produces friends of God and prophets.
28 For God loves nothing so much as the one who dwells with Wisdom.
29 For she is fairer than the sun
and surpasses every constellation of the stars.
Compared to light, she is found more radiant;
30 though night supplants light,
wickedness does not prevail over Wisdom.
 
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The Eastern Church takes the position that “Wisdom” refers to Jesus Christ in some places; one of which is Proverbs 9:1-5, which is a clear prophecy about Christ and the Church:

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What is hidden in the OT is made clear in the NT, and what is made clear in the NT is hidden in the OT.

What the writer of those passages thought, and/or what the readers of those passages thought, up to the time of Christ may be relevant or not; and I don’t generally get too tied up in trying to delve into that side of it.

Wisdom in the NT is tied to the Holy Spirit.
 
Western theology also considers Wisdom to be the Logos (the Word, Son, Jesus Christ)
 
Does anyone know why that translation which is approved on the Vatican website calls Wisdom Gods “Consort” I looked up what consort means on google and I got this.

“a wife, husband, or companion, in particular the spouse of a reigning monarch.”

Google says similar words are: partner, companion, mate, helpmate, helpmeet, spouse, husband, wife
 
I believe it is Jesus and as other posters already wrote, Wisdom is Jesus Christ.
St. Louis de Montfort wrote"Love of Eternal Wisdom". It explains your question perfectly with all biblical references.
 
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My explanation: because Son and Father are One (and Love between them is Holy Spirit) = Holy Trinity.
Also, who is wise as Lord? Lord and wisdom are inseparable.
 
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The truest wisdom is knowing that you know nothing 😉 - Socrates was right indeed
 
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I personally believe it refers to, certainly many things, but most of all, Our Lord and Our Lady.
 
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Re: “consort,” the word in Greek is “paredron,” a form of “paredros.”

It literally means “sitter-beside,” and you find it elsewhere when Wisdom is described as being found “sitting beside their gates.” But it can also mean various kinds of Greek civic officer, like an assessor, or a commander’s lieutenant/aide or second in command; or it can mean a magical familiar, or an assistant god.

There’s a Greek poem by Isocrates where he says that Helen eventually made her long-suffering husband King Menelaus into a god, at which point she also made him her housemate and her sitter-beside for all the ages; so yes, it can also mean a spouse or royal consort.

But honestly, I think the translator who picked “consort” was going rather far. A sitter-beside can be an entirely professional relationship of work, so it’s a bit weird to make translation assumptions like that when Wisdom is constantly described (by the images chosen in the Bible passages) as shifting roles and levels of formality, as well as going between female and male actions, youth and age, and so on. A chief scribe or a general or the king’s mother was also a king’s sitter-beside.

I suspect the Bible translator was taking sides on various historical debates; and if he/she wasn’t, that’s certainly the impression being given. I looked it up, and the NABRE translation of Wisdom 6:14 has her “found sitting at the gate” instead of being a consort to the gates.

Wisdom is one of the attributes of God, so it is proper (and very common in the Fathers of the Church) to call Jesus “Wisdom” as well as things like Truth. But the Holy Spirit can also be called Wisdom (as is common in medieval writers), the Holy Trinity can even be Wisdom, and so on.

Re: the idea that the “Wisdom has set up her house” is talking about the Church is hardly just an Eastern idea. You can’t throw a rock in any medieval sermon series on the Eucharist or the Church without hitting passages about this very reading. And of course, it all ties into the “messianic banquet” and the wedding feast of the Lord.
 
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jasonconners7 said:
I believe Wisdom is an Being/Angel that is at Gods throne. Here is why…
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Catholics don’t pick a part out of the Bible and decide we believe something based on our interpretation of it.

Catholics define wisdom as being one of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit; it is the ability to recognize and contemplate God present in our lives, in all his creations, and in other people.

Wisdom is not a “being” and it is not an “angel”. We also don’t name angels other than Sts. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and (in the case of some Eastern Catholics) Uriel.

So, your beliefs here do not agree with Catholic teaching.
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The Eastern Church takes the position that “Wisdom” refers to Jesus Christ in some places
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This is also reasonable. However, Jesus is not an angel, and I’m not sure I would classify him as a “being” either. He is God.

It’s also true that Scripture often uses figurative language.
 
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In fact, it would be heretical to classify Christ as “a being”, for God is one being… one being in three Persons. God is a being… but the three divine persons aren’t each “a being” - they are one being.
 
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The Eastern Church takes the position that “Wisdom” refers to Jesus Christ in some places
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This was quite common amongst the early Latin Fathers as well.

Augustine, in De Trinitate, wrote:
Neque enim quia ipse Filius alibi loquens voce Sapientiae (ipse est enim Dei Sapientia), ait: Gyrum caeli circuivi sola, separavit a se Patrem
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When the Son elsewhere spoke with the voice of Wisdom (for he himself is the Wisdom of God) saying, ‘I alone encompass the circuit of heaven’ (Sirach 24:5), he did not separate his Father from himself.
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St Fulgentius, in his fourth sermon, wrote:
Ipse est enim sapientia Dei, quae dicit in Prouerbiis : Per me reges regnant. Puer iste Verbum Dei est, puer iste uirtus et sapientia Dei est.
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For he (Jesus) is the Wisdom of God, who said in Proverbs (8:15) ‘through me kings reign’. This child is the Word of God, this child is the Righteousness and Wisdom of God.
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