Verba matris Dei ad Filium pro sponsa et qualiter Christus per Salomonem figuratur et de crudeli sentencia contra falsos Christianos.
The Mother's Plea and the Son's Wisdom
The Mother of God intercedes for the bride, prompting Christ to contrast the wisdom of Solomon with the indifference of his own people.
The Mother of God spoke to her Son, saying, "Look, Son, your bride is weeping, because your friends are few and your enemies are many." The Son replied: "It is written that the children of the kingdom will be cast out, and those who aren't children of the kingdom will receive the inheritance." It is also written that a certain queen came from the ends of the earth to see the riches of Solomon and to hear his wisdom. When she saw this, she was so amazed that she could hardly catch her breath. But those in his kingdom paid no attention to his wisdom, nor did they marvel at his riches.
The Rejection of Eternal Riches
Christ identifies himself as the true Solomon, lamenting that his people despise the eternal riches he has offered them.
I am that Solomon in figure, but far richer and wiser than Solomon, because all wisdom—and anyone who is wise—comes from me.✦ My riches are eternal life and glory beyond words. I promised these to Christians and offered them as to my children, so that if they would imitate me and believe my words, they might possess them forever. But these people don't pay attention to my wisdom, they despise my works, and they treat my promise and my riches as nothing. What, then, am I to do with them?
The Judgment of the Unfaithful
Christ declares that the inheritance will pass to the faithful while the ungrateful children of the kingdom will be cast aside like broken pottery.
Certainly, because the children refuse to hold the inheritance, strangers—that is, pagans—will receive it. For they will come, just like the foreign queen—by whom I mean faithless souls—and they will marvel at the riches of my glory and my love to such an extent that they will fall away from the spirit of their own infidelity and be filled with my Spirit. But what will I do with the children of the kingdom? I will treat them like a wise potter who, when he sees that the material he first made from clay isn't honorable or fit for use, casts it down to the ground and breaks it into pieces.1 This is how I will deal with Christians. Although they should be mine—since I formed them in my own image and redeemed them with my blood—they have become shamefully deformed. Therefore, they will be trampled like dirt and cast down into hell.
Read the original Latin
Mater Dei loquebatur ad filium dicens: "Ecce, fili, sponsa tua plorat, quia pauci sunt amici tui et inimici multi."
Respondit filius: "Scriptum est, quod filii regni eicientur et filii non regni accipient hereditatem. Sic eciam scribitur, quod quedam regina de ultimis finibus venit videre diuicias Salomonis et audire sapienciam eius.
Que cum vidit, vix pre admiracione habuit spiritum. Qui autem erant in regno eius, non attendebant sapienciam eius nec admirabantur diuicias eius.
Ego sum ille Salomon in figura, sed longe dicior et sapiencior Salomone, quia a me est omnis sapiencia et si quis sapiens est.
Diuicie mee sunt vita eterna et gloria indicibilis. Has ego promisi Christianis et prebui tamquam filiis, ut, si me imitarentur et verbis meis crederent, sine fine eas possiderent.
Sed isti sapienciam meam non attendunt, opera despiciunt, promissionem meam et diuicias meas habent pro nichilo. Quid ergo faciam eis?
Utique, quia filii nolunt habere hereditatem, extranei, idest pagani, recipient. Ipsi enim sicut regina extranea, per quam intelligo infideles animas, venient et admirabuntur diuicias glorie mee et caritatis in tantum, quod a spiritu infidelitatis sue cadent et spiritu meo replebuntur.
Quid autem faciam filiis regni? Faciam eis sicut sapiens figulus, qui materiam, quam prius de luto fecit, cum non perspexerit eam honestam et aptam, deprimit eam ad terram et comminuit.
Sic ego Christianis faciam. Qui cum mei esse deberent, quia eos ad imaginem meam formaui et per sanguinem meum redemi, sed deformati sunt contemptibiliter. Propterea sicut terra conculcabuntur et in infernum deprimentur.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Jas.1.5 — But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Notes
- 1 ↩The Latin 'cum non perspexerit' implies a realization or judgment of the material's state; 'isn't' captures the sense of failing to meet the intended standard.
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