“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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5For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.
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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.
4I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares.
— Wisdom of Solomon 7:5 —
6For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
7Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.