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Ecclesiasticus Chapter 24 Wisdom praiseth herself: her origin, her dwelling, her dignity, and her fruits. 24:1. Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people, 24:2. And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power, 24:3. And in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy assembly. 24:4. And in the multitude of the elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed, saying: 24:5. I came out of the mouth of the most High, the firstborn before all creatures: 24:6. I made that in the heavens there should rise light that never faileth, and as a cloud I covered all the earth: 24:7. I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud. 24:8. I alone have compassed the circuit of heaven, and have penetrated into the bottom of the deep, and have walked in the waves of the sea, 24:9. And have stood in all the earth: and in every people, 24:10. And in every nation I have had the chief rule: 24:11. And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord. 24:12. Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle, 24:13. And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. 24:14. From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. 24:15. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. 24:16. And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. 24:17. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. 24:18. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: 24:19. As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. 24:20. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: 24:21. And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. 24:22. I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace. 24:23. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. 24:24. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. 24:25. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. 24:26. Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits. 24:27. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb. 24:28. My memory is unto everlasting generations. 24:29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst. 24:30. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. 24:31. They that explain me shall have life everlasting. 24:32. All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth. 24:33. Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel. 24:34. He appointed to David his servant to raise up of him a most mighty king, and sitting on the throne of glory for ever. A most mighty king... Viz., Christ, who by his gospel, like an overflowing river, has enriched the earth with heavenly wisdom. 24:35. Who filleth up wisdom as the Phison, and as the Tigris in the days of the new fruits. 24:36. Who maketh understanding to abound as the Euphrates, who multiplieth it as the Jordan in the time of harvest. 24:37. Who sendeth knowledge as the light, and riseth up as Gehon in the time of the vintage. 24:38. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her, and a weaker shall not search her out. Who first hath perfect knowledge of her... Christ was the first that had perfect knowledge of heavenly wisdom. 24:39. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean. 24:40. I, wisdom, have poured out rivers. 24:41. I, like a brook out of a river of a mighty water; I, like a channel of a river, and like an aqueduct, came out of paradise. 24:42. I said: I will water my garden of plants, and I will water abundantly the fruits of my meadow. 24:43. And behold my brook became a great river, and my river came near to a sea: 24:44. For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off. 24:45. I will penetrate to all the lower parts of the earth, and will behold all that sleep, and will enlighten all that hope in the Lord. 24:46. I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age. 24:47. See ye that I have not laboured myself only, but for all that seek out the truth.Prev Next All
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