Day 306: Wisdom Is Beautiful (2023)

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

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Summary

Fr. Mike draws our attention to the descriptions of wisdom found in our readings for today and reflects on the beauty of wisdom’s feminine nature. He also discusses the death of Antiochus Epiphanes and offers two perspectives on reconciling God’s role in suffering. Today’s readings are from 2 Maccabees 9, Wisdom 7-8, and Proverbs 25:1-3.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where
0:07.7	we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture.
0:10.7	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension, using the great adventure
0:14.0	Bible timeline will read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the
0:17.8	story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.9	It is day 306, we're reading second book of the Maccabees, chapter 9, as well as Wisdom
0:24.8	chapters 7 and 8, Proverbs chapter 25, verses 1 through 3, as always the Bible translation
0:30.0	I'm reading from, is the revised and diversion, the second Catholic edition, I'm using the
0:33.4	great adventure Bible from Ascension, if you want to download your own Bible in a year
0:36.2	reading plan, you can visit AscensionPress.com slash Bible in a year, you can also subscribe
0:40.2	to this podcast, but click on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates,
0:44.8	because today is a day 306, you have 59 days, gosh math, why is it so hard, it's not that
0:52.0	hard, and say 306, we're reading second Maccabees chapter 9, Wisdom 7 and 8, Proverbs
0:56.7	chapter 25, verses 1 through 3, the second book of the Maccabees, chapter 9, the last
1:04.0	campaign of Antiochus Epiphanies, about that time as it happened, Antiochus had retreated
1:09.7	in disorder from the region of Persia, for he had entered the city called Persepolis,
1:14.3	and attempted to rob the temples and control the city, therefore the people rushed to the
1:18.2	rescue with arms and Antiochus and his men were defeated with the result that Antiochus
1:23.0	was put to flight by the inhabitants and beat a shameful retreat.
1:27.1	While he was in Ekbatana, news came to him of what happened to Nikonor and the forces
1:31.0	of Timothy, transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury
1:36.1	done by those who had put him to flight, so he ordered his charioteer to drive without
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