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Wisdom 3:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 3:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 Having endured a slight chastisement, they will receive great blessings,
because God tested them
and found them worthy to be with him.[a]
6 He put them to the proof like gold in a furnace,
and he accepted them as a sacrificial burnt offering.[b]
7 In the time of their visitation[c] they will shine brightly
and spread like sparks among the stubble.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 3:5 Trials and sufferings purify the righteous (Tob 12:13; 2 Mac 6:12-17; 7:32-33; Pss 66:10; 119:75; Prov 3:11-12; 1 Cor 11:32; Heb 12:11).
- Wisdom 3:6 Sacrificial burnt offering: the allusion is to the sacrifice in which the victim was offered to God and completely consumed by fire to show total dedication to him (Lev 1:1ff).
- Wisdom 3:7 Visitation: a biblical term for an intervention of God (see Isa 10:3) that is used here to designate God’s judgment of the righteous (probably immediately after death). In Wis 14:11, it is used to designate the judgment of the wicked. See also verse 13.
