“However, how Solomon excelled in wisdom by divine gift, Scripture shows by saying: God also gave Solomon wisdom and very great prudence, and breadth of heart, like the sand that is on the seashore, and Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals and of the Egyptians, and he was wiser than all men: wiser…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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20The natures of living creatures, and the furies of wild beasts: the violence of winds, and the reasonings of men: the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots:
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18The beginning, ending, and midst of the times: the alterations of the turning of the sun, and the change of seasons:
19The circuits of years, and the positions of stars:
— Wisdom of Solomon 7:20 —
21And all such things as are either secret or manifest, them I know.
22For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit holy, one only, manifold, subtil, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing that is good quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good,