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Jos
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What is your message board. Is this owned by google or a part of the catholic forum. I didn’t understand it. I felt a little unconfortable there. Let me know what it’s all about.
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kentuckyliz
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In the Bible, OT wisdom literature, Wisdom is metaphorically personified as a woman to be pursued. I guess it’s better than chasing after hoors. LOL
In English, we don’t have gendered nouns, so we overinterpret them when we find them. In German, die Wand = the wall, feminine gender. That doesn’t mean the wall is a woman. Capiche?
In English, we don’t have gendered nouns, so we overinterpret them when we find them. In German, die Wand = the wall, feminine gender. That doesn’t mean the wall is a woman. Capiche?
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ROBAUTEN
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Wisdom in the O.T. is one of the most difficult things to nail down with one interpretation or definition. It is always a feminine noun in gender and often it is even personified. It is never capitolized in the original languages (as the were written in all caps) and the capitolization in English is someone’s interpretation indicating that in a certain passage wisdom is referring to God. But there are places where wisdom is clearly a created thing. In the Church fathers personified wisdom was taken to apply very fluidly to Christ, to the Holy Spirit, to a gift of the Spirit, to the Virgin Mary and the Church. Mary is also known as the seat or throne of wisdom (madonna & child). As the spouse of the Holy Spirit, Mary would be a type of created wisdom - entirely full of grace and able to be one in spirit with the 3rd Person of the Holy Trinity. I do not think that the O.T. wisdom literature, coming as it did long before the incarnation, and drawing as it partially did on Arabic and Greek philosophers, is going to yeild up one really satisfying black and white definition of who or what Wisdom is. Thank God for the clarity of our dogmas of Christ and the Holy Trinity…Heh!
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Quaere_Verum
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A couple of you asked for biblical verses where the male pronoun is used for wisdom. I am not aware of those which may be there. I just know that after reading St. Louis de Montfort’s Love of Eternal Wisdom, he speaks in great length of eternal Wisdom as being Christ.
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DaveBj
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I could do a search, but I would need to know what translation of the Bible the queryers had in mind.
Just off the top of my head, and without actually doing any searching, I don’t think I’d be able to find any. As has been previously mentioned, both the Greek and Hebrew words for “wisdom” are grammatically feminine, and since both those languages have the rule that a pronoun must agree with its antecedent, pronoun references to “wisdom” would be feminine. I don’t know how many translation committees would let someone get away with translating the Hebrew HiYA or the Greek autee with the English “he/him/his.”
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