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The Wisdom of Solomon

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Table of Contents

- Chapter 1 -
An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot be deceived, and desires not our death.
- Chapter 2 -
The vain reasonings of the wicked: their persecuting the just, especially the Son of God.
- Chapter 3 -
The happiness of the just: and the unhappiness of the wicked.
- Chapter 4 -
The difference between the chaste and the adulterous generations: and between the death of the just and the wicked.
- Chapter 5 -
The fruitless repentance of the wicked in another world: the reward of the just.
- Chapter 6 -
An address to princes to seek after wisdom: she is easily found by those that seek her.
- Chapter 7 -
The excellence of wisdom: how she is to be found.
- Chapter 8 -
Further praises of wisdom: and her fruits.
- Chapter 9 -
Solomon’s prayer for wisdom.
- Chapter 10 -
What wisdom did for Adam, Noe, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, and the people of Israel.
- Chapter 11 -
Other benefits of wisdom to the people of God.
- Chapter 12 -
God’s wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with the Chanaanites.
- Chapter 13 -
Idolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all that worship for gods the works of the hands of men.
- Chapter 14 -
The beginning of worshipping idols: and the effects thereof.
- Chapter 15 -
The servants of God praise him who has delivered them from idolatry; condemning both the makers and the worshippers of idols.
- Chapter 16 -
God’s different dealings with the Egyptians and with his own people.
- Chapter 17 -
The Egyptian darkness.
- Chapter 18 -
The slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt: the efficacy of Aaron’s intercession, in the sedition on occasion of Core.
- Chapter 19 -
Why God showed no mercy to the Egyptians. His favour to the Israelites. All creatures obey God’s orders for the service of the good, and the punishment of the wicked.