Wisdom 8:1 (WEB)
But she reaches from one end to the other with full strength, and orders all things well.
Catechism · 1
“For "all are open and laid bare to his eyes", even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.” — Catechism footnote: Vatican Council I, Dei Filius I: DS 3003; cf. Wis 8:1; Heb 4:13.
Fathers and councils · 13
“…disposed them; of whom these words are for this reason spoken: “She (Wisdom) reacheth from one end to another mightily, and sweetly doth she order all things.”” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“If we think of God in the Form of God, the Word equal to the Father, this is the Wisdom of God, of which is said, “It reacheth from one end to the other mightily.”” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“But if it is said of the Father, where could He be without His own word and without His own wisdom, which “reacheth from one end to another mightily, and sweetly ordereth all things?”” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“…wisdom of God in His own substance stood within the space of an earthly place, who indeed “reacheth firmly from end to end, and sweetly ordereth all things;” and that the Word of God, by whom all things were made, is in such wise changeable, as now to contract, now to expand Himself; (may the Lord cleanse the hearts…” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“For what place is not “by” the Lord, who “reacheth from one end to another mightily, and sweetly doth order all things,” and of whom it is said, “Heaven is His throne, and earth is His footstool;” and who said, “Where is the house that ye build unto me, and where is the place of my rest?” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“For where does not the wisdom of the omnipotent God work that which He wills, which “reacheth from one end to another mightily, and sweetly doth order all things”?” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“…creature, even to the latter end, which is the death of the body, and so “reaching from the one end to the other, mightily and sweetly ordering all things.”” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“For what is more powerful and more beautiful than wisdom, “which reaches from end to end mightily, and sweetly disposes all things”?” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“But if all things were made by that Wisdom, “which reacheth from one end to another mightily, and sweetly ordereth all things,” then were they also made by the Son of God to whom He Himself as Son of Man was afterwards to be subject; and the Apostle says that He is the Son of David,…” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“You acknowledge Christ then to be the Power and Wisdom of God; acknowledge too what is said of Wisdom, “She reacheth from one end to another mightily, and sweetly doth she order all things.”” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…who said, “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” and whose wisdom it is that “reacheth from one end to another mightily; and sweetly doth she order all things.”” — editor's note: Wisdom viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…gifts of God, nor His handiwork, whose creative wisdom “reaches,” as it is written, “from one end to another mightily, and sweetly doth she order all things,” but because, in a case in which the gift of God, which was not due to men and was the gratuitous largess of grace, was to be conspicuous, it was requisite that…” — editor's note: Wisdom viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Where what was said of it again: “It powerfully reaches from the end even to the end, and ordereth all things sweetly”?” — editor's note: Wisd. viii. 1.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.1.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.1.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.5.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in The City of God XII.25.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.5.
Cited together in Catechism §302.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.5.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 3.
