wisdom of Proverbs 8, for which it uses language that is partly an anticipation of the New Testament’s Christological terms, and partly what might be called a platonic flirtation with Greek thought. It was soon to be outdone, in the latter respect, by the Alexandrian Jew, Philo. But we can also trace the wisdom element in Israel back to early times. Before Solomon gave it the immense stimulus of his own genius and of the inflow of foreign talent, there were permanent counsellors at his father’s court