Wisdom 7:21
And all such things as are hid and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et quæcumque sunt absconsa et improvisa didici : omnium enim artifex docuit me sapientia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅσα τέ ἐστιν κρυπτὰ καὶ ἐμφανῆ ἔγνων·
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter II. The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith
“Be not elated on account of thy wisdom,” say the Proverbs. “In all thy ways acknowledge her, that she may direct thy ways, and that thy foot may not stumble.” By these remarks he means to show that our deeds ought to be conformable to reason, and to manifest further that we ought to select and possess what is useful out of all culture. Now the ways of wisdom are various that lead right to the way of truth. Faith is the way. “Thy foot shall not stumble” is said with reference to some who seem to oppose the one divine administration of Providence. Whence it is added, “Be not wise in thine own eyes,” according to the impious ideas which revolt against the administration of God. “But fear God,” who alone is powerful. Whence it follows as a consequence that we are not to oppose God. …
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XXI. The answer to the question raised
Serenus : You have propounded two not unimportant questions, to which I will reply, to the best of my ability, in the order in which you have raised them. We cannot possibly believe that spiritual existences can have carnal intercourse with women. But if this could ever have literally happened how is it that it does not now also sometimes take place, and that we do not see some in the same way born of women by the agency of demons without intercourse with men? especially when it is clear that they delight in the pollution of lust, which they would certainly prefer to bring about through their own agency rather than through that of men, if they could possibly manage it, as Ecclesiastes declares: “What is it that hath been? The same that is. And what is it that hath been done? The same that is done. …