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Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.
She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.
If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.
I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,
And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.
For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.
I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.
And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.
God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as is meet for the things that are given me: because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom, and directeth the wise.
For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the elements:
For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.
If riches be a possession to be desired in this life; what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?
Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, knowing that she would be a counsellor of good things, and a comfort in cares and grief.
Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.
Now when I considered these things in myself, and pondered them in my heart, how that to be allied unto wisdom is immortality;
Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I said,
And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which thou hast made,
Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not from among thy children:
O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.
For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is?
For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee, and were saved through wisdom.
She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.
But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.
She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.
They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for:
Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their adversaries.
That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.
For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,
For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.
With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:
That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.
Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:
But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.
For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to whom thou mightest shew that thy judgment is not unright.
For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou makest their boldness manifest.
But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope that thou givest repentance for sins.
But they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of God.
For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.
Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;
But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.
For being conversant in his works they search him diligently, and believe their sight: because the things are beautiful that are seen.
For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?
For he provided for it that it might not fall, knowing that it was unable to help itself; for it is an image, and hath need of help:
Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and children, and is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life.
For health he calleth upon that which is weak: for life prayeth to that which is dead; for aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: and for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:
And for gaining and getting, and for good success of his hands, asketh ability to do of him, that is most unable to do any thing.
Nevertheless thou wouldest not that the works of thy wisdom should be idle, and therefore do men commit their lives to a small piece of wood, and passing the rough sea in a weak vessel are saved.
But that which is made with hands is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he, because he made it; and it, because, being corruptible, it was called god.
For that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it.
Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.
Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of God; but whereas they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.
So that there reigned in all men without exception blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.
Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.
Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labour, nor that his life is short: but striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, and endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.
Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit.
For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.
But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.
For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.
And in this thou madest thine enemies confess, that it is thou who deliverest from all evil:
For they were pricked, that they should remember thy words; and were quickly saved, that not falling into deep forgetfulness, they might be continually mindful of thy goodness.
For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaister, that restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.
For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thine arm: with strange rains, hails, and showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, and through fire were they consumed.
For, which is most to be wondered at, the fire had more force in the water, that quencheth all things: for the world fighteth for the righteous.
For sometime the flame was mitigated, that it might not burn up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves might see and perceive that they were persecuted with the judgment of God.
And at another time it burneth even in the midst of water above the power of fire, that it might destroy the fruits of an unjust land.