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Therefore also the wisdom of God said, `I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
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Who is 'The Wisdom of God'?
Commentators overwhelmingly identify 'the wisdom of God' not as a lost book, but as Jesus Christ himself. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that Jesus, as the embodiment of God's wisdom, is speaking with divine authority. This phrase underscores that the following prophecy of sending and persecution comes directly from God's sovereign plan.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See Barnes on Matthew 23:29.
Also Matthew 23:30-36.
The wisdom of God. By the wisdom of God, here, is undoubtedly mea…
The wisdom of God (η σοφια του θεου). In Mt 23:34 Jesus uses "I send" (εγω αποστελλω) without this phrase "the wisdom of God." The…
19th Century
Anglican
Therefore also said the wisdom of God.—The words that follow are largely the same as those of Matthew 23:34-36, where see…
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Baptist
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: that the blood o…
These verses relate the grim truth behind the parable of the tenants (). God’s “wisdom” (v.49) most likely refers to his sovereign wisdom that allo…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore also said the wisdom of God . The Syriac version only reads "wisdom"; by which seems to be meant not the p…
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