The 'Mortality' and Wisdom of 'Solomon'

Beneath is the Wisdom of Solomon, chapter 7:1-6 from the Apocrypha. I find it to be a powerful explanation of the image of pure mortalism. That is, a man who recognizes that he is without immortality, without eternal life.

1 I also am mortal, like everyone else,
a descendant of the first-formed child of earth;
and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh, 

2 within the period of ten months, compacted with blood,
from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage. 

3 And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air,
and fell upon the kindred earth;
my first sound was a cry, as is true of all. 

4 I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths. 

5 For no king has had a different beginning of existence; 

6 there is for all one entrance into life, and one way out.

Its a helpful reminder of my own mortality.

--Nick