Verse

Sirach 24:6

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I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth. That is, in heavenly men, a firm light of faith. The threefold heavens refer to a threefold vision: purely intellectual, intellectual combined with imaginary, and intellectual combined with manifest bodily vision. The first is found in the minds of…
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 9
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6In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.

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4I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.

5I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.

Sirach 24:6

7With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?

8So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.

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