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From: Wisdom 6:1-11
Exhortation to rulers
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Commentary:
6:1-11. God will be particularly severe with kings and rulers when he judges
them; and there can be no appeal. His scrutiny will extend beyond their doings,
into their most hidden thoughts. But to the lowly he will be kind. This is an idea
we find in the song of Hannah, the mother of Samuel (cf. 1 Sam 2:4, 8-10), and
in the Magnificat of our Lady (cf. Lk 1:51-53): God will exalt the lowly and the
“poor”, those who cannot raise themselves up, but who trust in God; but he will
topple the “mighty” and the proud. It is a divine paradox, which seems to invert
human values (cf. Phil 2:6-11).
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Source: “The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries”. Biblical text from the
Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries by members of
the Faculty of Theology, University of Navarre, Spain.
Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, and
by Scepter Publishers in the United States.