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The Wisdom of SolomonΣΟΦΙΑ ΣΟΛΟΜΩΝΤΟΣ

A six-tier Greek reverse-interlinear of all nineteen chapters of the Septuagint text: each word color-coded by grammatical case, with gloss, parsing, Wallace-style syntax, aspectual semantic force, and a lexical note; each verse opens with the running Greek, an English translation, and a discourse note, under a chapter argument-outline.

435 verses · 6,943 annotated words · nineteen chapters. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs–Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient, public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted apparatus is not reproduced. Versification follows the LXX.

Companion summary Themes, outlines & translation notes Every chapter's theme and argument outline, the textual notes, and a table of the major exegetical cruxes.
  1. 1 Wisdom of Solomon 1 Α′ Rulers are summoned to love righteousness because wisdom refuses duplicity and God's life-giving purpose stands against death. 16 verses · 254 words PDF
  2. 2 Wisdom of Solomon 2 Β′ Wisdom 2 gives extended voice to the inner logic of impiety. 24 verses · 377 words PDF
  3. 3 Wisdom of Solomon 3 Γ′ Wisdom 3 is one of the book's central reversals: what appears to be the ruin of the righteous is in fact their preservation with God, while the apparent security of the ungodly collapses under divine evaluation. 19 verses · 264 words PDF
  4. 4 Wisdom of Solomon 4 Δ′ Apparent incompletion is overturned: virtuous barrenness, early death, and the memory of the righteous outlast wicked prosperity. 20 verses · 299 words PDF
  5. 5 Wisdom of Solomon 5 Ε′ Wisdom of Solomon 5 brings the book's contrast between righteous and ungodly to a dramatic public reversal. 23 verses · 373 words PDF
  6. 6 Wisdom of Solomon 6 Ϛ′ Wisdom 6 resumes the book's address to rulers with unusual intensity. The first half of the chapter warns kings, judges, and tyrants that authority is derivative, accountable, and judged more severely the higher it stands. 25 verses · 320 words PDF
  7. 7 Wisdom of Solomon 7 Ζ′ Royal mortality becomes the backdrop for a dazzling praise of wisdom as gift, radiance, and renewing power. 30 verses · 436 words PDF
  8. 8 Wisdom of Solomon 8 Η′ Wisdom of Solomon 8 celebrates wisdom as cosmic ruler, chosen companion, teacher of virtue, interpreter of history, source of royal competence, and giver of immortal memory. 21 verses · 336 words PDF
  9. 9 Wisdom of Solomon 9 Θ′ A Solomonic prayer asks for enthroned wisdom because rule, judgment, and true knowledge all depend on divine gift. 18 verses · 303 words PDF
  10. 10 Wisdom of Solomon 10 Ι′ Wisdom 10 is a compressed salvation-history hymn in which wisdom is traced through the foundational righteous figures and scenes of the biblical narrative. 21 verses · 318 words PDF
  11. 11 Wisdom of Solomon 11 ΙΑ′ Israel's merciful testing and Egypt's measured punishment begin the book's long comparison of providence and judgment. 26 verses · 346 words PDF
  12. 12 Wisdom of Solomon 12 ΙΒ′ Wisdom of Solomon 12 reflects on the moral shape of God's judgments against the former inhabitants of the holy land and, by extension, on the character of divine rule itself. 27 verses · 456 words PDF
  13. 13 Wisdom of Solomon 13 ΙΓ′ Visible beauty should have led the mind to the Creator, but idolatry traps worship in crafted things. 19 verses · 348 words PDF
  14. 14 Wisdom of Solomon 14 ΙΔ′ Wood, ships, carved images, and civic disorder expose false worship as a corruption of both thought and society. 31 verses · 492 words PDF
  15. 15 Wisdom of Solomon 15 ΙΕ′ Wisdom 15 continues the anti-idolatry argument by setting the living God over against the vanity of fabricated cult objects. 19 verses · 370 words PDF
  16. 16 Wisdom of Solomon 16 ΙϚ′ Wisdom of Solomon 16 continues the book's comparative reading of Egypt's punishments and Israel's deliverances, dwelling especially on the pedagogical logic of divine provision. 29 verses · 508 words PDF
  17. 17 Wisdom of Solomon 17 ΙΖ′ Egyptian darkness becomes an inward plague of conscience, fear, and anti-vision for guilty souls. 20 verses · 330 words PDF
  18. 18 Wisdom of Solomon 18 ΙΗ′ Wisdom 18 continues the book's meditation on the exodus by setting Israel's deliverance and Egypt's judgment in deliberate counterpoint. 25 verses · 438 words PDF
  19. 19 Wisdom of Solomon 19 ΙΘ′ Wisdom 19 concludes the long exodus meditation by drawing together Egypt's final pursuit, Israel's passage through transformed creation, the memory of plague and provision, and a final theological reflection on the reordering of the elements. 22 verses · 375 words PDF