ἡ σοφία τοῦ θεοῦ. Comp. Luke 7:35. There is an allusion to 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 (comp. 2 Chronicles 36:14-21), or perhaps to Proverbs 1:20-31. But as the exact passage nowhere occurs in the O.T. some suppose that our Lord quotes (1) from a lost book called ‘The Wisdom of God’ (Ewald, Bleek, &c.); or (2) from previous words of His own; or (3) from the Gospel of St Matthew (see Matthew 23:34); or (4) from the Book of Proverbs (Luke 1:20-31). The clause is a general paraphrase of the tenor of several O.T. passages. In 1 Corinthians 1:24 Christ is called “the Wisdom of God.”

ἐξ αὐτῶν�. See on Luke 6:23. St Luke omits the σταυρώσετε which is found in Matthew 23:34.

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