Wisdom is a feminine noun in Hebrew and what
she offers, along with wine and bread and roasted meat, is order. The book of
Proverbs is dedicated to the premise that the world is ordered along
predictable paths and Wisdom knows the rules for living that will make life
follow the rules. The book of Ecclesiastes begs to differ and calls that sort
of wisdom "vanities of vanities" but that is a lesson for a different day. So let’s just say that
laying aside immaturity, even when the world is not orderly and predictable, is
a good thing and leads one to live through less than predicable times in a more
orderly fashion. Which is to say a more faithful way – and on that I believe Ecclesiastes and Wisdom would agree.
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