Wisdom 6:11
For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui enim custodierint justa juste, justificabuntur ; et qui didicerint ista, invenient quid respondeant.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Wisdom 6:10
- οἱ γὰρ φυλάξαντες ὁσίως τὰ ὅσια ὁσιωθήσονται, καὶ οἱ διδαχθέντες αὐτὰ εὑρήσουσιν ἀπολογίαν.
Haydock's commentary
Just. Septuagint, "holy." The Jewish judges were generally priests.
Answer. The sovereign judge, to whom Job and David confidently appeal.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XI. The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music
Such David describes the Church: “The queen stood on thy right hand, enveloped in a golden robe, variegated;” and with Hellenic and superabundant accomplishments, “clothed variegated with gold-fringed garments.” And the Truth says by the Lord, “For who had known Thy counsel, hadst Thou not given wisdom, and sent Thy Holy Spirit from the Highest; and so the ways of those on earth were corrected, and men learned Thy decrees, and were saved by wisdom?” For the Gnostic knows things ancient by the Scripture, and conjectures things future: he understands the involutions of words and the solutions of enigmas. He knows beforehand signs and wonders, and the issues of seasons and periods, as we have said already. …