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Wisdom 3:1
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 3:1
New Catholic Bible
For the Righteous—Life Eternal[a]
Chapter 3
Their Hope Is Full of Immortality[b]
1 [c]But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and no torment can overtake them.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 3:1 Longevity, posterity, and success—those grand realities in which the ancients strove to decipher the signs of divine recompense—are found to be valueless. The scale of values is reversed: true happiness is life with God, starting from the present and moving into an unimaginable eternity. The destiny of human beings is enlightened by a new day.
- Wisdom 3:1 Influenced by Greek thought, the author speaks of immortality, though still not arriving at the idea of a resurrection of the body.
- Wisdom 3:1 The Liturgy applies these verses to martyrs.
