Wisdom 5:6 (WEB)
Truly we went astray from the way of truth. The light of righteousness didn’t shine for us. The sun didn’t rise for us.
Fathers and councils · 12
Cyprian of Carthage
“All those things are passed away like a shadow.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 1–9.
Read the whole comment“All these things have passed away as a shadow.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 1–9.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…take it of this visible sun, and of the rain by which the fruits are nourished, as the wicked mourn in the book of Wisdom, “The Sun has not risen for us.” [Wis 5:6] And of the rain it is said, “I will command the clouds that they rain not on it.” [Isa 5:6] But whether it be this or that, it is of the great…” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“All those things are passed away like a shadow.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 3–9.
Read the whole comment“Therefore we have strayed from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shone to us, and the sun hath not risen to us.”…” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“There is a different light which springeth up to the righteous; of which light, that never rose upon themselves, the unrighteous shall in the end say, “Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined upon us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“And what sun is this, but that Sun of righteousness, whom the ungodly will lament on the day of judgment never having risen for them; they who will say on that day, “Therefore we wandered from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness shone not on us, and the sun did not arise upon us.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…created, not born, through whom all things were made; where is the intelligence of the Immutable Truth: of this the ungodly say, “the Sun rose not upon us.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 6. Here old editions add: “of this Sun Father Athanasius, the Bishop, hath thus beautifully spoken. ‘The Son of God,’ he saith, ‘is of the Father…
Read the whole comment“This shall be our summer.” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…on the good and holy; for it is this very thing which the wicked bewail in that book which is called the Wisdom of Solomon, “And the sun rose not upon us:” and that spiritual rain does not water any except the good; for the wicked were meant by the vineyard of which it is said, “I will also command my clouds that…” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“And, “Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the Sun of righteousness rose not upon us.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 8, 9, 6.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“What hath our pride profited us? all those things are passed away like a shadow.”” — editor's note: Wisd. v. 1–9.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (8) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (8) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.23.