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Alone, with none to aid her, she is all-powerful; herself ever unchanged, she makes all things new; age after age she finds her way into holy men’s hearts, turning them into friends and spokesmen of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 27)
More than this, thou hast bidden me raise thee temple and altar, upon this mountain, in the holy city where thou dwellest, model of that holy tabernacle, made long ago, whose pattern was of thy own devising.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 8)
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)
When Jacob, her faithful servant, was in flight from his brother’s anger, she guided him straight to his goal, and on the way shewed him the heavenly kingdom, gave him knowledge of holy things. She enriched him by his toil, and gave all his labours a happy issue. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 10)
they extolled, O Lord, thy holy name, proclaimed with one voice thy sovereign power; (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 20)
So it was with the former inhabitants of this thy holy land. Good reason thou hadst to be their enemy; (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 3)
They had thought to exercise barbarous tyranny over a nation consecrated to thee. And now they lay, shut close under their own roofs, darkness their dungeon, their sentence a long-drawn night, exiled from the gifts of thy eternal Providence. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 2)
It was their purpose, besides, to slay all the children born of that holy stock; but one child survived exposure and lived to rebuke them; through him thou didst destroy Egypt’s own children in their thousands, and drown its assembled host in the rushing waves. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 5)
So, sheltered by thy hand, they passed on their way, a whole nation of them, strange marvels seen in their passage; (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 8)
he it was that created her, through his holy Spirit. His eye took in the whole range of her being; (Ecclesiasticus 1, 9)
Wouldst thou be wise, the first step is fear of the Lord; to his chosen servants, a gift connatural from the womb; it goes with holy motherhood, and where his true worshippers are, shews manifest. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 16)
Fear God, and not keep the will alert, the heart holy in his sight? (Ecclesiasticus 2, 20)
