Wisdom 7:27 (WEB)
Although she is one, she has power to do all things. Remaining in herself, she renews all things. From generation to generation passing into holy souls, she makes friends of God and prophets.
Fathers and councils · 10
Augustine of Hippo
“For that Word remains unchangeably: for of this very Word was it spoken when of Wisdom it was said, “Remaining in herself, she maketh all things new.”” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27
Read the whole comment“And what is like unto Thy Word, our Lord, who remaineth in Himself without becoming old, and “maketh all things new”?” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27.
Read the whole comment“It is good, then, for me to cleave unto God, for if I remain not in Him, neither shall I in myself; but He, remaining in Himself, reneweth all things.” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27.
Read the whole comment“The soul of the righteous is the seat of Wisdom.” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27.
Read the whole comment“Let us therefore say nothing of those who, with an over carnal mind, have thought the nature of the Word of God, and the Wisdom, which, “remaining in herself, maketh all things new,” whom we call the only Son of God, not only to be changeable, but also to be visible.” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27
Read the whole comment“Nor ought this to trouble us, that it is called a pure emanation issuing from the glory of the Almighty God, as if itself were not omnipotent, but an emanation from the Omnipotent; for soon after it is said of it, “And being but one, she can do all things.”” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 25–27
Read the whole comment“Now, if wisdom is God, who made all things, as is attested by the divine authority and truth, then the philosopher is a lover of God.” — editor's note: Wisdom vii. 24–27.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But what is there that is impossible to Wisdom, of Whom it is written: “Seeing that she is almighty and abiding, she maketh all things new in herself”?” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…‘Wisdom of God,’ our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, not out of season, but in season, ‘passed upon holy souls, fashioning the friends of God and the prophets;’ so that although very many were praying for Him, and saying, ‘O that the salvation of God were come out of Sion!’—the Spouse also, as it is written in the…” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27.
Read the whole comment“For He is the Word and the Power and the Wisdom of God, as Solomon testifies concerning Wisdom, that ‘being one, it can do all things, and remaining in itself, it maketh all things new; and passing upon holy souls, fashioneth the friends of God and the prophets.’” — editor's note: Wisd. vii. 27; cf. Ep. i.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 3.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity II.8.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity II.8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity II.8.
Cited together in Confessions VII.11.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
Cited together in Confessions VII.11.
Cited together in Confessions IX.10.
