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Wisdom 16:26-28
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 16:26-28
New Catholic Bible
26 so that your beloved children, O Lord, might learn
that it is not the various crops of the earth that nourish them,
but it is your word that sustains those who trust in you.[a]
27 For whatever was not destroyed by fire[b]
melted when merely warmed by a passing sunbeam,
28 to instruct us that we must rise before the sun to offer thanks to you
and must pray to you at the dawning of the day.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 16:26 This shows the last stage of the spiritual interpretation of the manna: food for the body in the wilderness (Ex 16), sent by God in order to test the people and reveal to them the primacy of the word of God as food for human beings (Deut 8:3, cited by Jesus at the time of the temptation, Mt 4:4), and here the food of true life. Jesus took inspiration from these texts to say: “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me” (Jn 4:34).
- Wisdom 16:27 Whatever was not destroyed by fire: i.e., what remained of the manna.
