Thursday, 22 May 2008

The Wisdom of Solomon?

'... the life of Solomon demonstrates that wisdom does not allow the wise to rest on their laurels and coast through life. Wisdom requires guarding one's steps, and the wiser one is, the more skilful one is, the more paths are open, the more options. Folly Barbara Tuchman says, is a function of power, and power is often the product of skill ... The wise can accomplish things that a fool cannot, and this means that the wise [face] peculiar temptations, temptations that are simply not available to the fool. Humans rightly strive for wisdom, strive above all to get wisdom, but there is a kind of skill in living that is no more than a highly refined form of folly.'
Leithart, Peter (2006), 1 & 2 Kings, SCM Press, p82.


Or as Jesus put it: "From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked." (Luke 12v48b, NETBible)

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