Wisdom 8:3
She glorifieth her nobility by being conversant with God: yea and the Lord of all things hath loved her.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Generositatem illius glorificat, contubernium habens Dei ; sed et omnium Dominus dilexit illam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐγένειαν δοξάζει συμβίωσιν θεοῦ ἔχουσα, καὶ ὁ πάντων δεσπότης ἠγάπησεν αὐτήν·
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On the Morals of the Catholic Church, Harmony of the Old and New Testaments
28. Perhaps some may think that those passages do not refer to the Son of God. What, then, is taught in the following words: "She displays the nobility of her birth, having her dwelling with God?" To what does birth refer but to parentage? And does not dwelling with the Father claim and assert equality? Again, as Paul says that the Son of God is the wisdom of God, and as the Lord Himself says, "No man knoweth the Father save the only-begotten Son," what could be more concordant than those words of the prophet: "With Thee is wisdom which knows Thy works, which was present at the time of Thy making the world, and knew what would be pleasing in Thine eyes?" And as Christ is called the truth, which is also taught by His being called the brightness of the Father (for there is nothing round about the sun but its brightness which is produced from it), what is there in the Old Testament more pla …