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7:4. I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with great cares.
7:5. For none of the kings had any other beginning of birth.
7:6. For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
7:7. Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called
upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me:
7:8. And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed
riches nothing in comparison of her.
7:9. Neither did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold, in
comparison of her, is as a little sand; and silver, in respect to her,
shall be counted as clay.
7:10. I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead
of light: for her light cannot be put out.
7:11. Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable
riches through her hands,
7:12. And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I
knew not that she was the mother of them all.
7:13. Which I have learned without guile, and communicate without envy,
and her riches I hide not.
7:14. For she is an infinite treasure to men: which they that use,
become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts of discipline.
7:15. And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive
thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the
guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:
7:16. For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and
the knowledge and skill of works.
7:17. For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to
know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the
elements,
7:18. The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the alterations
of their courses, and the changes of seasons,
7:19. The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,
7:20. The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the
force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and
the virtues of roots,
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.
7:22. For in her is the spirit of understanding; holy, one, manifold,
subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is
good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,
7:23. Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power,
overseeing all things, and containing all spirits: intelligible, pure,
subtile:
7:24. For wisdom is more active than all active things; and reacheth
everywhere, by reason of her purity.
7:25. For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure
emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled
thing cometh into her.
7:26. For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted
mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.
7:27. And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself
the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself
into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets.
7:28. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
7:29. For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of
the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
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