Whence did the writer to the Hebrews obtain his description of Jesus the Son in Heb. 1. 3 "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person"? Nothing like it occurs in the Old Testament. A very similar phrase is found in the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon, one of the books of the Apocrypha. In a passage devoted to the praise of Wisdom personified (Wis.7.26) we are told that Wisdom is "the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness". This evident application of "Wisdom" of pre-Christian literature to the person of our Lord is an additional justification for the suggestion that "Wisdom" in the eighth chapter of Proverbs is in fact descriptive of the office of the Son prior to His coming to earth. "Wisdom" and the "Word" or "Logos" was "made flesh" when Jesus came to earth as man, as John explains in the first chapter of his Gospel. Proverbs 8 tells of his existence with the Father "or ever the earth was" and the apocryphal Book of Wisdom, although not of the inspired books of Scripture, supports Proverbs 8. Hebrews sets the seal by likening our resurrected Lord, set down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, to that Wisdom which is the brightness of His glory and the image of His person, using the language of Israel's sacred writings of olden time.