Sirach 20: The Wise and Foolish
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Jan Adam Kruseman: The Wise and Foolish Virgins
The Lamb is the one who opens the sealed scroll in Revelation. The Lamb is the one who appears slain . . . but who saves . . . by the giving over of himself. We who answer his call to form the mystical body do well to seek and study, to ask and search. This is the only true path to life in Christ. When we knock, he will answer. When we search, he will find.
Admonitions, comparisons, similes, metaphors, ironies, paradoxes . . . words moving into concepts that guide our lives.
The proper time for speech and silence.
True and false wisdom.
Double entendres that hide and reveal.
Seeing stereotypes for what they are . . . a division of the whole . . . an anti-universe.
Wisdom seems to always be accompanied by foolishness and Matthew’s story of the Ten Virgins comes to mind. Therefore keep watch because you do not know the day or time. There is hidden treasure in these refrains and sayings.
Proverbs that lend us so much wisdom . . . these are nuggets to be valued and taken to heart. These are the wise sayings that lead to life in Christ. These are the refrains our parents used and that we echo to our children and grandchildren. Read these words . . . and pass them on . . . for this is the stuff that leads to salvation, to unity, to universality. This is Christ.
Hidden wisdom and unseen treasure – of what use is either? Better the man who hides his folly than the one who hides his wisdom.
Written on November 20, 2008, re-written and posted today as a Favorite.
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