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Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light.(A)

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II

By the Lord’s word the heavens were made;
    by the breath of his mouth all their host.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33:6 All their host: the stars of the sky are commonly viewed as a vast army, e.g., Neh 9:6; Is 40:26; 45:12; Jer 33:22.

Chapter 9

Solomon’s Prayer[a]

[b]God of my ancestors, Lord of mercy,(A)
    you who have made all things by your word(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:1–18 The author presents his version of Solomon’s prayer (1 Kgs 3:6–9; 2 Chr 1:8–10).
  2. 9:1–2 The author identifies Wisdom with the word of God just as he again identifies Wisdom with the spirit of God in v. 17. All three are alternate ways of expressing God’s activity in relationship with the world and its inhabitants.

[a]All things came to be through him,
    and without him nothing came to be.(A)
What came to be

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 What came to be: while the oldest manuscripts have no punctuation here, the corrector of Bodmer Papyrus P75, some manuscripts, and the Ante-Nicene Fathers take this phrase with what follows, as staircase parallelism. Connection with Jn 1:3 reflects fourth-century anti-Arianism.