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Bold is her sweep from world’s end to world’s end, and everywhere her gracious ordering manifests itself. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 1)
whose friendship was such dear delight, whose exercise brought me credit unfailing, her daily comradeship a training in sound judgement, the eloquence she inspired an earnest of renown; win her for myself I must, and went about to attain my purpose. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 18)
gentle birth above the common had endowed me with a body free from blemish.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 20)
From that heavenly sanctuary, that high throne of thine, send her out still on thy errand, to be at my side too, and share my labours! How else should thy will be made clear to me? (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 10)
Thy purposes none may know, unless thou dost grant thy gift of wisdom, sending out from high heaven thy own holy spirit. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 17)
So, too, with that innocent people of Israel, that unoffending race; did she not deliver them from the nations that kept them under? (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 15)
So lost to piety were these Egyptians, such foolish reasonings led them astray, that they worshipped brute✻ reptiles, and despicable vermin. And swarms of brute beasts thou didst send to execute thy vengeance, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 16)
Thy power knows no restraint, the power that created an ordered world out of dark chaos. It had been easy to send a plague of bears upon them, or noble lions; (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 18)
Tender, at the first false step, is thy rebuke; thou dost remind and warn us that we have gone astray, to make us leave our sinning and have faith in thee. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 2)
Yet they, too, were men, and thou wouldst deal gently with them; thou wouldst send hornets as the vanguard of thy invading host, to wear them down gradually.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 8)
But one more piece of refuse wood is left, that is fit for nothing; so crooked is it and so gnarled. See him, in an idle moment, pick it up and spend his leisure carving it! A master craftsman this; ere long it has taken shape, made into a man’s likeness; (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)
But yonder idol is accursed, no less than the man who made it; he for his wicked design, and the lifeless thing for the legend of divinity that was attached to it. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 8)
