Wisdom Justified by her children

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Something for you to contemplate during the week !

A verse like this may be why Christian mystics and others identify the Holy Spirit with Sophia

LUKE 7:35

kai edikaioothee hee sophia apo pantoon toon teknoon autees

And justified (passive of dikaioo) is THE (feminine) SOPHIA by all the children of her

WISDOM IS JUSTIFIED BY ALL HER CHILDREN

and after reading this perhaps go and reread the Wisdom passages in Proverbs?

Holy Wisdom and Winged Gods

The orthodox church has an interesting iconography for Holy Wisdom showing her as a winged woman. However before I show you a couple of icons I want you to consider this: where do the images of angles as winged humanoids derive from?

Yes near eastern art was one source but I wonder if another was early Christian artists seeing images in Greek and Roman art of winged deities like Iris or Eros?

Here's Eros in flight

and here's Thanatos Death with wings

Finally Iris messenger of the gods

Now Holy Wisdom 

Remember the first missionaries to pagan KIEV were GREEK Orthodox from Byzantium.