Somewhat more than a century after Jesus Ben Sira's work, came an answer to his prayer, not from above but from beneath, in the so-called "Psalter of Solomon." This is no wisdom book, and need not detain us. It is mainly a hash--one may say a mess--made up out of the Psalms; and though some of the allusions, apparently to Pompey and others, may possess value in other connexions, the work need only be mentioned here as an indication of the fate which Solomon met at the hands of Jahvism. The name of the Wisest of his race on this vulgar production is like the doggerel on Shakespeare's tomb, and the fling at England's greatest poet written on the tomb of his daughter,--"Wise to salvation was good Mistriss Hall," etc. Before passing, it may be remarked that the obvious allusions to Christ in this Psalter seem clearly spurious, and for one I cannot regard as other than a late interpolation verse 24 of Psalter-Psalm xvii.: "Behold, O God, and raise up unto them their king, the Son of David, in the time which thou, O God, knowest, that he may reign over Israel thy servant." There is nothing in the literature of the time before or after that would warrant the concession to this ranting Salvationist (B. C. 70-60) of an idea which would then have been original. The verse has the accent of a Second Adventist a century later. The title "Son of David" occurs even in the New Testament but sixteen times. The Psalter is in spirit thoroughly Jahvist, narrow, hard, without one ray of Solomonic wisdom or wit. It may fairly be regarded as the sepulchre of the wise man whose name it bears (though not in its text). Jahvism has here triumphed over the whole cult of Wisdom. But Solomon is not to rest there. He is again evoked, though not yet in his ancient secular greatness, by the next work that claims our attention. This last of the Wisdom Books bears the heading "Wisdom of Solomon" (Sophia Solomontos) and gives unmistakable identifications of the King, though herein also the name "Solomon" appears only in the title. Perhaps the writer may have wished to avoid exciting the ridicule or resentment of the Solomonists by plainly connecting the name of their founder with a retractation of all the secularism and the heresies anciently associated with him. The aristocratic Sadducees, who believed not in immortality, derived their name from Solomon's famous chaplain, Zadok.