“We have spoken of the fruits of Holy Scripture. It is to these fruits that Holy Wisdom invites us. "I bud forth delights like the vine, My blossoms become fruit fair and rich. Come to Me, all you that yearn for Me, and be filled with My fruits." If we want to come over, we must be the sons of Israel who passed over fr…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 19
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17As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.
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15I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.
16As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.
— Sirach 24:17 —
18I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.
19Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.