Ecclesiasticus 1:4
Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Prior omnium creata est sapientia, et intellectus prudentiæ ab ævo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Created. Or "generated," if it be understood of the Son. (St. Athanasius) (Bos.[Bossuet?])
The wisdom which is given to man, was in God before the creation, Proverbs viii. 22. (Calmet)
The decree regarding the incarnation was from eternity. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book XII, Chapter XV
20. For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all things, not certainly that Wisdom manifestly co-eternal and equal unto Thee, our God, His Father, and by Whom all things were created, and in Whom, as the Beginning, Thou createdst heaven and earth; but truly that wisdom which has been created, namely, the intellectual nature, which, in the contemplation of light, is light. For this, although created, is also called wisdom. But as great as is the difference between the Light which enlighteneth and that which is enlightened, so great is the difference between the Wisdom that createth and that which hath been created; as between the Righteousness which justifieth, and the righteousness which has been made by justification. …