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Wisdom 8:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 8:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 8
1 She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other,
and she governs all things exceedingly well.
A Companion in Life[a]
2 I loved Wisdom and searched for her from my youth;
I resolved to have her for my spouse
and was in love with her beauty.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 8:2 Wisdom is, for our author, a word and a symbol that evokes the supreme goods of private and public life. Certainly, his mentality and his vocabulary appear to us to be poetic speculations very far from our way of saying things, yet these pages are precious to us. They guard us from shutting ourselves up within the limits of what we know, what we can do, and what we have. There is for human beings a greater horizon that breaches the threshold of the divine. Those who claim to master science are well advised to reflect on this.
