“Therefore, wisdom displays its virtue through a vessel suited to itself; first, it makes its own preacher humbly recount the origin of human condition, so that everyone may know what they possess from the origin of the flesh and what from divine gift. For when he says that he was formed in blood and the seed of man du…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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1I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,
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— Wisdom of Solomon 7:1 —
2And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.
3And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.