GOD’S WISDOM REVEALED IN HOLY SCRIPTURE (Part II)

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ Our Only True Lord, God, and Savior,

CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE.

GOD’S WISDOM REVEALED IN HOLY SCRIPTURE (Part II)

The writer of the Book of Proverbs is prophetically exalted in thought to the prefiguration of the New Testament economy of God, which is to be revealed in the preaching of the Savior of the world, in the salvation of the world and of mankind, and in the creation of the New Testament Church. This prefiguration is to be found in the first verses of the Ninth Chapter of Proverbs: "Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars, She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine in a bowl…" (Proverbs 9:1-6, Septuagint). This magnificent image is equal in power to the prophecies of the Savior in the Old Testament prophets.

Since the economy of salvation was performed by the Son of God, the Holy Fathers of the Church, and following them the Orthodox interpreters of the Book of Proverbs in general, refer the name "wisdom of God," which essentially belongs to the Holy Trinity as a whole, to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, as the Fulfiller of the Counsel of the Holy Trinity.

By analogy with this prophetic passage, the images in the Book of Proverbs which were indicated above as referring to the wisdom in God (in chapter 8) are also interpreted as applying to the Son of God. When the Old Testament writers, to whom they mystery of the Most Holy Trinity ws not entirely revealed, say, "In wisdom hath He made them all" (Psalm 103:26)–for a New Testament believer, a Christian, in the name "Logos" ("Word") and in the name "Wisdom" is revealed the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God.

The Son of God, as a Hypostasis of the Holy Trinity, contains in Himself all the Divine attributes in the same fullness as do the Father and the Holy Spirit. However, as having manifested these attributes to the world in its creation and its salvation, He is called the Hypostatic Wisdom of God. On the same grounds, the Son of God can also be called the Hypostatic Agape (Love) [see Saint Symeon the New Theologian, Homily 53); the Hypostatic Light (walk [in the light] "while ye have the light"–John 12:35] the Hypostatic Life ("Thou hast given birth to the Hypostatic Life" —Canon of the Annunciation, Canticle 8) and the Hypostatic Power of God ("We preach… Christ the power of God— 1 Corinthians 1:23-24). (Orthodox Dogmatic Theology)

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"Glory Be To GOD
For
All Things!"
– Saint John Chrysostomos
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With sincere agape in His Divine and Glorious Diakonia (Ministry),
The sinner and unworthy servant of God
+ Father George