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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE BOOK OF PROVERBS \nFrom a commentary by Dom Damasus Winzen4 \n◊◊◊ \nTo fear God\, in the Old Testament\, does not mean to be afraid of Him\, but \nto be devoted to Him. “In the fear of the Lord a person has great confidence… \nThe fear of the Lord is a fountain of life”. The wisdom which grows out of this \nfear of the Lord is\, therefore\, a progressive transformation of the heart… \nThe Book of Proverbs is a guide to establish peace in the minds of the \nfaithful by bringing them into contact with the light of that Divine Wisdom \nwhich rules the world gently and peacefully. The fear of the Lord\, the keeping \nof the commandments\, the right way of life\, is the object… Wisdom and folly are \nopposed to each other as life and death. It is the Way\, the Truth and the Life \nWho speaks in these proverbs. His charity is foreshadowed in the love of the \npoor…Wisdom was with Her Father when He established the heavens\, and \nwhen He set a circle upon the face of the deep\, and when He appointed the \nfoundations of the earth. Therefore Wisdom opens to the eyes of mortals the \ndivine meaning of this visible creation. \nThe teaching…would not be complete\, however\, without the revelation of \ntwo other great mysteries\, which represent\, in someway\, the beginning and the \nend of God’s ways: the mystery of the Divine Personality of the Word of God\, \nand that of the eternal life of the just. Wisdom is not only a mental image or an \nabstract thought or a guiding principle. It is a Divine Person. It is the inner \nnature of Wisdom to be the true\, substantial image of the Father’s glory. If \nWisdom were only a personification of the Law she would be dead. Only as a \nDivine Person can she become a source of life. As this is shown in the beginning \nof creation\, so still more gloriously at the end. The last triumph of Wisdom is \nthe Last Judgment\, which will bring eternal life to the just. In the earlier periods \nof the Old Testament revelation\, the immortality of the soul was shrouded in \nmystery. Now it enters into the full light of faith. \nFrom the beginning to the end\, the universal rule of Wisdom has been \nestablished. Nevertheless those whose eyes have been opened in Baptism to the \nlight of Christ will realize that the teaching of Solomon lacks one thing: the \n“foolishness of God”\, Christ crucified. Wisdom was going to be more than a \nguide to the wise\, more than eternal life for the just\, more\, even\, than the \nbeginning of creation. She was to become the Lamb who would not only expose \nbut take away the sin of the world. The wisdom of Solomon preached reward to \nthe virtuous and death to those who hate her. But more than Solomon is here\, \nwhere Christ Jesus becomes unto us sinners “wisdom and justice and \nand redemption” through the foolishness of the Cross. \n  \n4 Pathways of Scripture\, Dom Damasus Winzen\, pg. 93 Unpublished MS.8 \n  \n  \n 
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