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Wisdom 9:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 9:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 For a perishable body burdens the soul,
and its earthly tent[a] weighs down the mind filled with many cares.
16 With difficulty do we assess what is on earth,
and that which is within our reach we discover only after arduous labor;
who then can seek out the things of heaven?
17 Who could ever have known your counsel if you had not given Wisdom
and sent your Holy Spirit from on high?
Footnotes
- Wisdom 9:15 Earthly tent: our spirit, because it is incarnated, is limited in the knowledge of things. The images of the “body subject to corruption” and the “earthly tent” are dear to Paul (see 2 Cor 4:7; 5:1-4). The fact that the body constitutes a burden for human beings does not mean that the flesh is evil.
