#ScriptureReflection - Wisdom 7:22-30 (7.6.19)

Nature and Incomparable Dignity of Wisdom

 For in her is a spirit
    intelligent, holy, unique,
Manifold, subtle, agile,
    clear, unstained, certain,
Never harmful, loving the good, keen,
²³     unhampered, beneficent, kindly,
Firm, secure, tranquil,
    all-powerful, all-seeing,
And pervading all spirits,
    though they be intelligent, pure and very subtle.

²⁴ For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion,
    and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity.
²⁵ For she is a breath of the might of God
    and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
    therefore nothing defiled can enter into her.

²⁶ For she is the reflection of eternal light,
    the spotless mirror of the power of God,
    the image of his goodness.
²⁷ Although she is one, she can do all things,
    and she renews everything while herself perduring;
Passing into holy souls from age to age,
    she produces friends of God and prophets.

²⁸ For God loves nothing so much as the one who dwells with Wisdom.

²⁹ For she is fairer than the sun
    and surpasses every constellation of the stars.

Compared to light, she is found more radiant;
³⁰     though night supplants light,
    wickedness does not prevail over Wisdom.