Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the open squares she raises her voice; down the crowded ways she calls out, at the city gate she utters her words: "How long, you simple ones, will you love inanity, how long will you turn away at my reproof?"
-Proverbs 1:1-7, 20-33
With all of the masculine references in the Bible, I am surprised at the fact that Wisdom is feminine. Men and women often have different roles to play here on earth. However, a lot of Jesus's characteristics were feminine for those times and his being male emphasized those characteristics of gentleness, for example, which would be dismissed as a typical fault in a woman. Perhaps husbands still don't fully appreciate their wife's wisdom yet or perhaps they tune out too soon when the first thing out of her mouth sounds like nagging as it does in the passage above. Either way, there's a lot to think about ;)
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