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Old Testament Reading - The Nature of Wisdom

²²For wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me.

There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy,
unique, manifold, subtle,
mobile, clear, unpolluted,
distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen,
irresistible, ²³ beneficent, humane,
steadfast, sure, free from anxiety,
all-powerful, overseeing all,
and penetrating through all spirits
that are intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle.
²⁴For wisdom is more mobile than any motion;
because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.
²⁵For she is a breath of the power of God,
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
²⁶For she is a reflection of eternal light,
a spotless mirror of the working of God,
and an image of his goodness.
²⁷Although she is but one, she can do all things,
and while remaining in herself, she renews all things;
in every generation she passes into holy souls
and makes them friends of God, and prophets;
²⁸ for God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
²⁹ She is more beautiful than the sun,
and excels every constellation of the stars.
Compared with the light she is found to be superior,
³⁰for it is succeeded by the night,
but against wisdom evil does not prevail.
8 ¹She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other,
and she orders all things well.