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Weekly Challenge #4 is up

Weekly Challenge #3 ended with a whopping 0 guesses made about the supplied verse, so here's the answer: it's from the Book of Wisdom, chapter 2.

This is one of the apocryphal books that Protestants tend not to include in their Biblical canons, whereas Catholics (using the older canon) tend to include it.  And it's a shame for those that don't include it, because (as Wisdom 2) demonstrates, it really hammers home Solomon's pithy remark that there isn't anything new under the Sun...at least in the realm of opposition to belief.

Wisdom 2 reads, I find, as a kind of "quick reference" to the standard arguments of atheists who follow the works of Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris.  And it just as summarily dismisses them (rightly) as folly.  This in a text, mind, that was written...what?  On the order of 2,500 years ago, if not more?

Anyhow, Weekly Challenge #4 is up (see the blog's header).  Answers can be submitted by PM, or in the comments form of this or any subsequent blog post.