- 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. PDF
- 2 Wisdom of Solomon 2 Β′ Wisdom 2 gives extended voice to the inner logic of impiety. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 4 Wisdom of Solomon 4 Δ′ Apparent incompletion is overturned: virtuous barrenness, early death, and the memory of the righteous outlast wicked prosperity. PDF
- 5 Wisdom of Solomon 5 Ε′ Wisdom of Solomon 5 brings the book's contrast between righteous and ungodly to a dramatic public reversal. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 7 Wisdom of Solomon 7 Ζ′ Royal mortality becomes the backdrop for a dazzling praise of wisdom as gift, radiance, and renewing power. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 9 Wisdom of Solomon 9 Θ′ A Solomonic prayer asks for enthroned wisdom because rule, judgment, and true knowledge all depend on divine gift. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 13 Wisdom of Solomon 13 ΙΓ′ Visible beauty should have led the mind to the Creator, but idolatry traps worship in crafted things. PDF
- 14 Wisdom of Solomon 14 ΙΔ′ Wood, ships, carved images, and civic disorder expose false worship as a corruption of both thought and society. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 17 Wisdom of Solomon 17 ΙΖ′ Egyptian darkness becomes an inward plague of conscience, fear, and anti-vision for guilty souls. PDF
- 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. PDF
- 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. PDF