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Who has a right to tell us that the spirit of man mounts upwards, and the spirit of a beast sinks down to the depth? (Ecclesiastes 3, 21)
Look well what thou art doing when thou goest into God’s house; present thyself there in a spirit of obedience. Obedience is far better than the sacrifice made by fools, that are guilty of unwitting sacrilege.✻ (Ecclesiastes 4, 17)
with that, back goes dust to its parent earth, and the spirit✻ returns to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12, 7)
A holy thing it is, the spirit that brings instruction; how it shrinks away from the touch of falsehood, holds aloof from every rash design! It is a touchstone, to betray the neighbourhood of wrong-doing. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 5)
A good friend to man is this spirit of wisdom, that convicts the blasphemer of his wild words; God can witness his secret thoughts, can read his heart unerringly, and shall his utterance go unheard? (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 6)
No, the spirit of the Lord fills the whole world; bond that holds all things in being, it takes cognisance of every sound we utter; (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 7)
Whence, then, did the prudence spring that endowed me? Prayer brought it; to God I prayed, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 7)
gentle birth above the common had endowed me with a body free from blemish.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 20)
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)
and set him free from wrong-doing of his own,✻ and gave him the mastery over all things else. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 2)
No thought for the God that was his own fashioner, quickened him with the pulse of energy, breathed into him a living spirit! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 11)
he it was that created her, through his holy Spirit. His eye took in the whole range of her being; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 9)