Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Learned in the law of God and true wisdom, which consists in knowing and loving God. Challoner.—Hebrew “instructors.”—Instruct. Hebrew “justify,” in the same sense. The Machabees and other priests, and so forth who instructed people in the law, and stood up for its defence, may be meant. Calmet.—“There is as much difference between a learned sanctity and a holy rusticity, as there is between heaven and the stars.” Saint Jerome—Teachers, martyrs, and virgins are entitled to an aureola, or accidental reward, besides the essential beatitude. Worthington.—Many. Th. and the Vulg. read, “and of the just many shall be like for an age and after.” Saint Jerome