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| The Fear of God is Man’s True Wisdom.
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Chapter 2.—The Fear of God is Man’s True
Wisdom.
The true wisdom of man is piety.
You find this in the book of holy Job. For we read there what
wisdom itself has said to man: “Behold, the fear of the Lord
[pietas], that is wisdom.”1093
If you ask further what is meant
in that place by pietas, the Greek calls it more
definitely
θεοσέβεια, that is, the
worship of God. The Greeks sometimes call piety εὐσέβεια, which
signifies right worship, though this, of course, refers specially
to the worship of God. But when we are defining in what
man’s true wisdom consists, the most convenient word to use is
that which distinctly expresses the fear of God. And can you, who
are anxious that I should treat of great matters in few words, wish
for a briefer form of expression? Or perhaps you are anxious that
this expression should itself be briefly explained, and that I
should unfold in a short discourse the proper mode of worshipping
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