1 Kings 3:12 (WEB)
behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
Fathers and councils · 4
Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §13On Proverbs
“…give thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like thee upon the earth, and after thee there shall not arise any like unto thee,” and as follows in what is written of him.” — editor's note: 1 Kings iii. 12.
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John Chrysostom
“For so Solomon,because he asked what he ought, behold how quickly he received.” — editor's note: 1 Kings iii. 10–14; 2 Chron. i. 11, 12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Thus Solomon, who was the wisest of all men, whether before him or in his own time, to whom God gave breadth of heart, and a flood of contemplation, more abundant than the sand, even he, the more he…” — editor's note: 1 Kings iii. 12.
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Tertullian
“…as I have shown Him to be the defender of the poor, in order that I may prove Christ to be on the Creator’s side in this matter, even when He enriched Solomon.” — editor's note: 1 Kings iii. 5–13.
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