The concept of wisdom is elusive because it is exceedingly complex. This priority implies superiority to all created things. I was poured forth, This is an image of birth. While as yet the earth and the fields were not made, nor the first clods of the world. Wisdom witnessed all the creation and came to know its secrets.
Little child fits the earlier birth imagery.
It does not answer questions posed by the congregation or even provide a summary of Christian doctrine. Rather, it presents his missionary reflections on the possibility of salvation now offered to all men, vice only the Jews, in the Good News of Christ Jesus. Through faith man shares in the effects of the plan of salvation conceived by the Father and brought to realization in the death and resurrection of Jesus. He is now beginning to discuss the Christian experience in itself. Before moving on, it might be important to define justification.