Wisdom 14:2
For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by his skill.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Illud enim cupiditas acquirendi excogitavit, et artifex sapientia fabricavit sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐκεῖνο μὲν γὰρ ὄρεξις πορισμῶν ἐπενόησεν, τεχνῖτις δὲ σοφία κατεσκεύασεν·
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XI. The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music
Again, on the other hand, we may hear: “For in His hand, that is, in His power and wisdom, are both we and our words, and all wisdom and skill in works; for God loves nothing but the man that dwells with wisdom.” And again, they have not read what is said by Solomon; for, treating of the construction of the temple, he says expressly, “And it was Wisdom as artificer that framed it; and Thy providence, O Father, governs throughout.” And how irrational, to regard philosophy as inferior to architecture and shipbuilding! And the Lord fed the multitude of those that reclined on the grass opposite to Tiberias with the two fishes and the five barley loaves, indicating the preparatory training of the Greeks and Jews previous to the divine grain, which is the food cultivated by the law. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).