The Book of Wisdom is a book dedicated to the study and praise of the divine science, where King Solomon, probably the author of the book, also expressed his personal reflections and experiences in the first person. This book of the sapiential literature, as well as the Book of Proverbs, Psalms, and Ben Sira, aims to teach man to meditate on the knowledge of true spirituality and not to waste time on pretty lies or superficial reflections lacking content.
And the wise man began his book by meditating on the two mentalities, the mentality of fools and the mentality of sensible men, and how these two groups of people conceive life. And the wise man expressed that fools deny everything related to the divine, and only focus on the immediacy of things, on selfishness, and greed. That is why the wise man wrote about the thinking of the fools: "For we were born as the result of happenstance, and afterward we shall be as though we had never existed. The breath in our nostrils is merely a puff of smoke, and our reason is a spark enkindled by the beating of our hearts" Wisdom 2:2. For fools, then, there is nothing more than taking what one can from life and enjoying things to the extent possible; the other, the neighbor, in this context, does not matter.
But for sensible men, that is, for men who fear God, things are different; there is hope placed in everyday things. Life for the wise people is like a path that progressively leads man from the dawn of a new day to its full midday. For the sensible man, there is an underlying order in the chaos of things; for some, it may be God, for others, the eternal and imperishable wisdom.
This is why the wise King Solomon wrote about the hope of this kind of person, a hope placed in a significant reward, the communion with God, and the most perfectly, the love directed toward all of God's work, the spiritual love or Agape. And with these words, Solomon described the hope of the righteous: "Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will dwell with him in love" Wisdom 3:9. In essence, what Solomon is describing here is a foreshadowing of what in the Christian faith is called eternal life. The Book of Wisdom thus shows that spiritual promise reserved for those who live according to divine laws.
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