Wisdom 9:13 (WEB)
For what man will know the counsel of God? Or who will conceive what the Lord wills?
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…the earth, and especially the rule followed with respect to the hairs of their head, how can we believe them regarding things spiritual, and super-celestial, and those which, with a vain confidence, they assert to be above God?” — editor's note: [Wisdom ix. 13, 17. A passage of marvellous beauty.]
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Augustine of Hippo
“But before this body, which is dead by reason of sin, is quickened, it is without doubt corruptible, and presseth down the soul.” — editor's note: Wisd. of Sol. ix. 13.
Read the whole comment“For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.”” — editor's note: Wisdom ix. 13–15.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together with
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.
Cited together in The City of God XII.15.
Quoted in
Who has known the mind of the Lord?