Wisdom 1:6 (WEB)
For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness of his inmost self, and is a true overseer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
Fathers and councils · 3
Tertullian
“For, when one reads of God as being “the searcher and witness of the heart;” when His prophet is reproved by His discovering to him the secrets of the heart; when God Himself anticipates in His people the thoughts of their heart, “Why…” — editor's note: Wisd. i. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But the mouth that lieth, slayeth the soul.”” — editor's note: Wisd. i. 6–11
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“This Spirit, for He is most wise and most loving, if He takes possession of a shepherd makes him a Psalmist, subduing evil spirits by his song, and proclaims him King; if he possess a goatherd and scraper of sycamore fruit, He makes him a Prophet.” — editor's note: Wisd. i. 6.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 31.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 15.