Wisdom 6:21 (WEB)
If therefore you delight in thrones and sceptres, you princes of peoples, honor wisdom, that you may reign forever.
Fathers and councils · 2
“Accordingly, he says: “Now you have certainly defined as naturally evil this concupiscence which is indispensable for fecundity; whence comes it, therefore, that it is aroused in aged men by the gift of Heaven?” — editor's note: Wisd. vi. 21. The word in the Latin Bible in both cases is “concupiscentia.”
Read the whole comment“I never said, “There would be no concupiscence,” because there is a concupiscence of the spirit, which craves wisdom.” — editor's note: Wisd. vi. 21.
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