Limitless Word

The wisdom by which God made the world — and the Wisdom made flesh.

Proverbs personifies Wisdom as present with God before creation, the master craftsman at his side; Job asks where wisdom can be found and answers that it belongs to God alone; Ecclesiastes tests every earthly path and finds it wanting. The New Testament gathers the thread into a person: Christ, "the wisdom of God," "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." To seek wisdom, in the end, is to seek him.
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    Wisdom present at creation

    Proverbs 8:30

    Then I was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was His delight daily, Rejoicing always before Him,

    Proverbs personifies Wisdom beside God as the master craftsman when the world was made.
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    "Where shall wisdom be found?"

    Job 28:12

    ¶“But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

    Job's great poem: wisdom is hidden from all living things and known to God alone.
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    Christ the wisdom of God

    1 Corinthians 1:24

    but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

    Paul: Christ crucified is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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    Treasures of wisdom hidden in Christ

    Colossians 2:3

    in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

    Colossians: in Christ "are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."

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