It was mentioned as one of the four books from the Maccabean Revolt period, which some listeners may not be familiar with, and is part of the Catholic canon.
We have four books during this time period. We have not only 1 and 2 Maccabees, we also have Sirach and the Book of Wisdom that are going to be not necessarily familiar with everyone who's part of thi...
— Episode: Introduction to the Maccabean Revolt (wi...
Episode: Introduction to the Maccabean Revolt (with Jeff Ca...
It was mentioned as one of the four books from the Maccabean Revolt period, which some listeners may not be familiar with, and is part of the Catholic canon.
We have four books during this time period. We have not only 1 and 2 Maccabees, we also have Sirach and the Book of Wisdom that are going to be not necessarily familiar with everyone who's part of this community.
Episode: Introduction to the Maccabean Revolt (with Jeff Ca...
It was mentioned as one of four books related to the Maccabean Revolt period, and it was mentioned alongside 1 and 2 Maccabees and Sirach as potentially less familiar to listeners.
We have not only 1 and 2 Maccabees, we also have Sirach and the Book of Wisdom that are going to be not necessarily familiar with everyone who's part of this community.
Episode: Day 256: Hard Seasons (2022)
It was mentioned that the book discusses God's creation and his desire for life, rather than death, and that it's coming up soon in the reading plan.
it's coming in a little bit uh first we have of course a messianic checkpoint then we have the return then we have maccabean revolt and in the course of that we're going to hear the book of wisdom and in the book of wisdom it says as i said god did not make death nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living for he created all things that they might have life
so god his will his perfect will for us is that we have life and not just life in this world but eternal life but his permissible will right that what god allows to happen because of free will and because he knows that he can bring about a greater good is what a lot of us experience on a day-to-day basis and this is what the people of israel experienced the people of jerusalem experienced people of judah experienced with the babylonians
Episode: Day 53: The Twelve Tribes of Israel (2026)
A quote from the book of Wisdom was cited to support the idea that God does not desire violence or death, stating that God does not rejoice in the destruction of the living.
In fact, in the book of wisdom, he says, God does not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
