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| The Word of God is Also the Wisdom of God. The Going Forth of Wisdom to Create the Universe, According to the Divine Plan.
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Chapter VI.—The Word of
God is Also the Wisdom of God. The Going Forth of Wisdom to Create the
Universe, According to the Divine Plan.
This power and disposition7818
| 7818 “Mutual
relations in the Godhead.” | of
the Divine Intelligence7819
is set forth also
in the Scriptures under the name of Σοφία, Wisdom; for what
can be better entitled to the name of Wisdom7820
than the Reason or the Word of God? Listen therefore to Wisdom
herself, constituted in the character of a Second Person: “At the
first the Lord created me as the beginning of His ways, with a view to
His own works, before He made the earth, before the mountains were
settled; moreover, before all the hills did He beget
me;”7821
that is to say, He
created and generated me in His own intelligence. Then, again, observe
the distinction between them implied in the companionship of Wisdom
with the Lord. “When He prepared the heaven,” says
Wisdom, “I was present with Him; and when He made His
strong places upon the winds, which are the clouds above; and when He
secured the fountains, (and all things) which are beneath the sky, I
was by, arranging all things with Him; I was by, in whom He delighted;
and daily, too, did I rejoice in His presence.”7822
Now, as soon as it pleased God to put forth
into their respective substances and forms the things which He had
planned and ordered within Himself, in conjunction with His
Wisdom’s Reason and Word, He first put forth the Word Himself,
having within Him His own inseparable Reason and Wisdom, in order that
all things might be made through Him through whom they had been planned
and disposed, yea, and already made, so far forth as (they were) in the
mind and intelligence of God. This, however, was still wanting to them,
that they should also be openly known, and kept permanently in their
proper forms and substances.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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