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Wisdom 4:10-12
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 4:10-12
New Catholic Bible
10 [a]He has sought to please God, so God has loved him;
while living among sinners, he has been taken up.
11 He has been snatched away so that evil would not pervert his understanding
or guile deceive his soul.
12 For the spell of wickedness beclouds what is good,
and the swirl of desire corrupts the simple heart.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 4:10 These verses contain allusions to Enoch, who was young in terms of the life-span of the Patriarchs (Gen 5:21-24) and Lot (Gen 19:10-11; 2 Pet 2:7-8). Taken up: the righteous are “taken up” like Enoch (Gen 5:24), Elijah (2 Ki 2:1, 11), and Christ at the Ascension (Acts 1:11, 22).
