“Generosity is glorified by having fellowship with God. Therefore, generosity and nobility belong to the only-begotten Son, to have an eternal and omnipotent Father, with whom he himself remains coequal and coeternal from the beginning: because in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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3In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.
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1Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order all things.
2I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.
— Wisdom of Solomon 8:3 —
4For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.
5If riches be a possession to be desired in this life; what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?