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The book of Wisdom contains three distinct sections:
- God’s indictment against Christianity (chapters 1-13)
- The hidden knowledge of God and Heaven revealed (chapters 14-26)
- The house of Christ, the future of humanity, and the gnosis of God (chapters 27-29)
# of chapters: 29
Wisdom 10:50-62
50 Therefore, whosoever would find place in the bosom of God, let them hear and understand: Beware the righteousness of churchgoers who for a pretense would do service to God. Whited sepulchers are they, filled with dead men’s bones.
51 Woe unto you hypocrites, for you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against everyone but yourselves only, and for a pretense make long prayers, thinking yourself better than all others.
52 Woe unto you hypocrites, for you hold Bibles to your bosom as though you would take to your soul the word of God, yet inwardly you are filled with all manner of corruption, for you devour widow’s houses for money’s sake, and you are filled with loathing against the poor who have not so much as a pillow to rest their head on.
53 Woe unto you hypocrites, for you encompass the world round about with a multitude of missionaries that you might make one convert, and when you have made him, you make him twofold more the child of hell than you yourselves.
54 Woe unto you hypocrites, churchgoers filled with pride! For you pay tithe of all that you own and fast often, yet you have forgotten the more weighty matters altogether: mercy, love, forgiveness; these ought you to have done and not left undone.
55 For this cause has God rejected even all your gifts and offerings, for you were without compassion altogether, neither cared you for the sufferings of others but thought to yourselves instead: ‘Surely they suffer because of some wickedness.’
56 Woe unto you hypocrites, for you make clean the outside for appearance sake only, that you might appear beautiful and praiseworthy before others, but inwardly you are filled with all manner of uncleanliness, being made blind towards your own transgressions.
57 Attend, therefore, to the affairs of your heart and make yourselves clean every whit, for every tree which brings forth evil fruit, even that tree shall God uproot and cast away.
58 Consider how blind you are made to become, for you say to yourselves that if you had lived in the days of Yeshua you would surely have been his disciples.
59 You generation of vipers! Did you not know that all they who consented unto the death of this righteous one, were even everyone churchgoers like unto yourselves, believing that they were elected above all the rest?
60 Why pretend you, therefore, among yourselves saying that if you had lived in Yeshua’s day, you would surely have been his disciples? For I tell you truly that he received not his authority from church leaders as you do, but rather he was appointed by God unto the people.
61 Woe unto you churchgoers, hypocrites! Repent you and weep aloud, for you are become as the scribes and Pharisees of old. For either you love the tree and hate its fruit, or else you love the fruit but hate the tree that bore it.
62 Behold, your house is left desolate, and all your righteousness made unclean because of pride. How then shall your sins be covered and whereunto shall you find refuge, seeing that God shall demand of you an accounting?
“The only authority you have over us is what we give you,
and we give you none.”
Wisdom 11:62
