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Messiah in the Book of Wisdom

The apocryphal Jewish religious work, the Book of Wisdom, once considered Biblical canon by both Jews and Christians, written ~100-300 years before Messiah, contains the following:

Let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he rebukes us with our breaking the Torah, and objects to our infamy the sins of our education. He professes to have the knowledge of God: and he calls himself the child of Adonai.

He was made to reprove our thoughts.

He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men's, his ways are of another fashion. We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstains from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounces the end of the just to be blessed, and makes his boast that God is his father.

Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies. Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience. Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.

Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness has blinded them.

As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.

-Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-22

Interesting. Hat tip to Trimm.

Good shabbat!

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