“The salvation of the soul, which is in the possession of divine wisdom, together with works of justice, must absolutely be preferred to all bodily health and to every kind of corporeal things, because, as will be shown later, this wisdom is more beautiful than the sun and surpasses every arrangement of the stars; comp…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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11All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.
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9Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.
10I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
— Wisdom of Solomon 7:11 —
12And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
13I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.