But are they many who throughout these centuries have sought to find Wisdom in Christ, and in His redeeming compassion, His perfect knowledge of human weakness and human need, His calm unfailing strength, His infinite holiness, His glorious ideal, His faith, His sacrifice, have declared that they have found that which they sought? They are very many. Already they are a multitude which no man can number--out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples--of whom some have sealed the confession with their life-blood, and some have given equal testimony in the unfaltering purity and patience of a quiet and unselfish life. Some of them have been learned and some unlearned in this world’s knowledge, but it is abundantly evident that all who have been faithful to His word have possessed in its fulness the deeper Wisdom which is from above. The sum of it all is this. Christ has come. There are those who do not trouble to seek for Wisdom with their whole heart, but that is a foolish attitude which should be shunned. The miracle has happened, and we ought to face its challenge. What think ye of Christ? Whose son is He? Index A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY Articles on _Proverbs_, _Ecclesiasticus_, _Wisdom Literature_, _Hellenism_, etc., in the Encyclopædia Brittanica (11th edition), Hastings’s Dictionary of the Bible and the Encyclopædia Biblica. C. H. TOY, _Proverbs_ (International Critical Commentary). G. CURRIE MARTIN, _Proverbs_, etc. (The Century Bible). C. F. KENT, _Wise Men of Ancient Israel_. W. O. E. OESTERLEY, _Ecclesiasticus_ (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges). S. R. DRIVER, _Literature of the Old Testament_ s.v., Proverbs, etc. G. A. SMITH, _Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament_, ch viii. A. R. GORDON, _The Poets of the Old Testament_ chs. XV.-XVIII. C. TAYLOR, _Sayings of the Fathers_ (_Pirke Aboth_). A. COHEN, _Ancient Jewish Proverbs_ (Wisdom of the East Series). E. L. BEVAN, _The House of Seleucus_ (2 vols.) E. L. BEVAN, _Jerusalem under the High Priests_. H. P. SMITH, _Old Testament History_ chs. XVIII., XIX. I.--INDEX OF REFERENCES PROVERBS. ver. CHAPTER I. page 4 130 7-9 157, 267 10ff 153, 181, 184, 200 17 231 22 130, 180, 181 24 180 CHAPTER II. 3, 4, 9 267 10 217, 272 16-19 186 CHAPTER III. 3, 4 145, 269 5, 6 158 7 246 11, 12 192, 271 13-15 170 16 272 17, 18 217, 231 19f 172 25f 278 27, 28 155, 211 29 154 31, 32 153 33 275 34 267 CHAPTER IV.