Wisdom 2:16 (WEB)
We were regarded by him as something worthless, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father.
Fathers and councils · 4
Hippolytus of Rome
“We are esteemed of him as counterfeits, and he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness, and pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 15, 16.
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Augustine of Hippo
“These things did they imagine, and were mistaken; for their own malice hath quite blinded them.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 12–21.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Presently he adds: “And in every thought she meets them,” being variously contemplated, that is, by all discipline.” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 16.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For their maliciousness hath blinded them, and they knew not the sacraments of God.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 12–22.
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