“The infinite therefore calls wisdom a treasure, because the more diligently one learns it, the deeper one realizes it to be; and the more one advances by meditating on it, the more one understands that it is sought at greater depth; and therefore those who meditate on it become participants in the friendship of God, b…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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14For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth: which they that use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that come from learning.
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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.
— Wisdom of Solomon 7:14 —
15God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as is meet for the things that are given me: because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom, and directeth the wise.
16For in his hand are both we and our words; all wisdom also, and knowledge of workmanship.