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May. 30th, 2003 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaA few days ago I posed the question in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
questionofgod how we should interpret Proverbs 8, a passage that depicts Wisdom/Sophia as a "co-creator."
Here is what I just wrote as a reply (I think on a different thread actually), to explain my own thoughts.
I interpret the Wisdom passages in Proverbs figuratively, as an indication of the relationship between Mind (Nous/Logos) and the universe. The idea was expressed in Stoic and Alexandrian Jewish (and, later, Gnostic, Hermetic, and some Christian) philosophy that the cosmos was arranged like a mind, or indeed WAS the mind of God, and furthermore, that the person who achieved alignment with that Mind -- "marrying Wisdom," as it was expressed in the late Solomonic literature -- achieved righteousness or salvation.
The word used in the gospels frequently translated as "repent" in most Bibles -- metanoeo -- more accurately means "I align my mind/thoughts."
questionofgod how we should interpret Proverbs 8, a passage that depicts Wisdom/Sophia as a "co-creator."Here is what I just wrote as a reply (I think on a different thread actually), to explain my own thoughts.
I interpret the Wisdom passages in Proverbs figuratively, as an indication of the relationship between Mind (Nous/Logos) and the universe. The idea was expressed in Stoic and Alexandrian Jewish (and, later, Gnostic, Hermetic, and some Christian) philosophy that the cosmos was arranged like a mind, or indeed WAS the mind of God, and furthermore, that the person who achieved alignment with that Mind -- "marrying Wisdom," as it was expressed in the late Solomonic literature -- achieved righteousness or salvation.
The word used in the gospels frequently translated as "repent" in most Bibles -- metanoeo -- more accurately means "I align my mind/thoughts."
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