Wisdom 12:1
O how good and sweet is thy spirit, O Lord, in all things!
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- O quam bonus et suavis est, Domine, spiritus tuus in omnibus !
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὸ γὰρ ἄφθαρτὸν σου πνεῦμά ἐστιν ἐν πᾶσιν.
Haydock's commentary
O how. Septuagint, "for incorruptible is thy Spirit;" which St. Athanasius (ad Serap.) adduces as a proof of the Holy Ghost's divinity. (Calmet)
God loves the soul of man. (Grotius)
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
Origen Origen Against Celsus, Chapter XXXVII
He charges us, moreover, with introducing “a man formed by the hands of God,” although the book of Genesis has made no mention of the “hands” of God, either when relating the creation or the “fashioning” of the man; while it is Job and David who have used the expression, “Thy hands have made me and fashioned me;” with reference to which it would need a lengthened discourse to point out the sense in which these words were understood by those who used them, both as regards the difference between “making” and “fashioning,” and also the “hands” of God. …
Origen Origen Against Celsus, Chapter LI
But what need is there to quote any more passages against Celsus, in order to prove that his words contain nothing which was not said long before among themselves, since that has been sufficiently established by what we have said? It seems that what follows has some reference to this: “If you think that a Divine Spirit has descended from God to announce divine things to men, it is doubtless this same Spirit that reveals these truths; and it was under the same influence that men of old made known many important truths.” But he does not know how great is the difference between those things and the clear and certain teaching of those who say to us, “Thine incorruptible spirit is in all things, wherefore God chasteneth them by little and little that offend;” and of those who, among their other instructions, teach us that words, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,” refer to a degree of spiritual infl …