“Holy teachers arrange the peoples and the nations subject to them to live with discipline, when they open up and explain to them the testimonies of the Law and the Prophets, and make them obey the sacred words of the Gospel. They no longer allow them to wander, wavering through various sects, but compel them to preser…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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14I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be subject unto me.
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12When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, and when I speak, they shall give good ear unto me: if I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth.
13Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.
— Wisdom of Solomon 8:14 —
15Horrible tyrants shall be afraid, when they do but hear of me; I shall be found good among the multitude, and valiant in war.
16After I am come into mine house, I will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness; and to live with her hath no sorrow, but mirth and joy.