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Wisdom 2:19-21
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 2:19-21
New Catholic Bible
19 Let us test him with insults and torments
so that we may be able to measure his gentleness
and ascertain the depths of his forbearance of evil.
20 Let us condemn him[a] to a shameful death,
since, according to his words, he will be protected.”
The Horrible Face of Death[b]
21 Such was their reasoning, but they were wrong,
for their own malice blinded them.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 2:20 Him: i.e., the faithful Jew who was mocked and persecuted for his faith. Christian tradition sees in this verse a foreshadowing of Christ’s Passion, the innocent One hated by his enemies (see Heb 12:3; see also Mt 27:43).
- Wisdom 2:21 A mysterious adversary (in the juridic sense: “accuser”) for human beings—called here the devil (diabolos: the word that, in the Septuagint, translates the Hebrew for Satan; see Job 1:6)—is at work; for the first time, he is presented as the tempter of human beings.
