Wisdom 2:20

““Let us condemn Him with a most shameful death, for by His own sayings He shall be respected;” for if he is indeed the Son of God, He will deliver Him from the hands of His adversaries: He will not suffer His Son to die, if He is truly His Son.” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 20. [The Jews, even in their own book of Wisdom, show what they did to “the Just One.” The whole passage is so remarkable, that we need not wonder at…

“Thou hast the voice of these very men in the book of Wisdom.” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 18–20. [See p. 172, supra.—C.]

“The word of these same men we perceive in the wisdom of Solomon: “with death most vile,” say they, “let us condemn Him; let us question Him, for there will be regard in the discourses of Him; for if truly Son of God He is, let Him deliver Him.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 20, 18.

“These things did they imagine, and were mistaken; for their own malice hath quite blinded them.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 12–21.

“Let us condemn him with a shameful death, for by his own saying he shall be respected.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 14, 16, 17, 20. [The argument is ad hominem. The Jews valued this book, but did not account it to be Scripture; yet this quotation is a very…

“For their maliciousness hath blinded them, and they knew not the sacraments of God.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 12–22.