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The Sophia The Christ, also known as the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, is a Gnostic text that was first discovered in the Berlin Codex (a Codex purchased in Cairo in 1896 and given to the Berlin Museum which also contains the Gospel of Mary, the Apocryphon of John, and a summary of the Act of Peter).
The connection of Divine Wisdom to the concept of the Logos resulted in the interpretation of "Holy Wisdom" (Hagia Sophia) as an aspect of Christ the Logos. [3] [4] The expression Ἁγία Σοφία itself is not found in the New Testament, even though passages in the Pauline epistles equate Christ with the "wisdom of God" (θεοῦ ...
It is a wisdom that speaks of those things that God has prepared for those who love him. These emphases from the broader context of the Corinthian letter could imply that the word of wisdom involves insight into God's plan of salvation and the proclamation of Christ crucified. [1] [2] [3]
Solomon and Lady Wisdom by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, 1860. In the Septuagint, the Greek noun sophia is the translation of Hebrew חכמות ḥoḵma "wisdom". Wisdom is a central topic in the "sapiential" books, i.e. Proverbs, Psalms, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Book of Wisdom, Wisdom of Sirach, and to some extent Baruch (the last three are Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament).
Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6; motto of many institutions viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi: I will show you the way of wisdom: Motto of DePaul University: vice: in place of: The word refers to one who acts in the place of another. It is used as a separate word or as a hyphenated prefix, e. g., "Vice President" and "Vice-Chancellor". vice ...
Proverbs 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book probably ...
The accusation seems to be that unlike the austere John the Baptist, Christ lived like ordinary people, conversing with them. Lapide gives a couple of possible reasons for this, 1) "that His affability might allure those whom John’s austerity would terrify," 2) that Christ leave an example in everything, food, drink, clothing, etc., that it is not the things themselves, but an excessive love ...
The word of wisdom, a spiritual gift listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8 The Word of Wisdom (Latter Day Saints) , the health code of the Latter Day Saint movement "Words of Wisdom", a song by Jinjer from the album King of Everything (album)