Wisdom 9:17 (WEB)
Who gained knowledge of your counsel, unless you gave wisdom, and sent your holy spirit from on high?
Fathers and councils · 2
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 because it goes on to say, “And Thy counsel who hath known, except Thou give wisdom, and send Thy Holy Spirit from above;” therefore we refrain indeed from searching out the things which are in heaven, under which kind are contained both angelical bodies according to their proper…” — editor's note: Wisd. ix. 14–17
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