Wisdom · 6
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Melior est sapientia quam vires, et vir prudens quam fortis.
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Audite ergo, reges, et intelligite ; discite, judices finium terræ.
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Præbete aures, vos qui continetis multitudines, et placetis vobis in turbis nationum.
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Quoniam data est a Domino potestas vobis, et virtus ab Altissimo : qui interrogabit opera vestra, et cogitationes scrutabitur.
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Quoniam cum essetis ministri regni illius, non recte judicastis, nec custodistis legem justitiæ, neque secundum voluntatem Dei ambulastis.
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Horrende et cito apparebit vobis, quoniam judicium durissimum his qui præsunt fiet.
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Exiguo enim conceditur misericordia ; potentes autem potenter tormenta patientur.
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Non enim subtrahet personam cujusquam Deus, nec verebitur magnitudinem ejus cujusquam, quoniam pusillum et magnum ipse fecit, et æqualiter cura est illi de omnibus.
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Fortioribus autem fortior instat cruciatio.
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Ad vos ergo, reges, sunt hi sermones mei : ut discatis sapientiam, et non excidatis.
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Qui enim custodierint justa juste, justificabuntur ; et qui didicerint ista, invenient quid respondeant.
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Concupiscite ergo sermones meos ; diligite illos, et habebitis disciplinam.
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Clara est, et quæ numquam marcescit, sapientia : et facile videtur ab his qui diligunt eam, et invenitur ab his qui quærunt illam.
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Præoccupat qui se concupiscunt, ut illis se prior ostendat.
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Qui de luce vigilaverit ad illam non laborabit ; assidentem enim illam foribus suis inveniet.
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Cogitare ergo de illa sensus est consummatus, et qui vigilaverit propter illam cito securus erit.
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Quoniam dignos se ipsa circuit quærens, et in viis ostendit se hilariter, et in omni providentia occurrit illis.
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Initium enim illius verissima est disciplinæ concupiscentia.
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Cura ergo disciplinæ dilectio est, et dilectio custodia legum illius est ; custoditio autem legum consummatio incorruptionis est ;
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incorruptio autem facit esse proximum Deo.
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Concupiscentia itaque sapientiæ deducit ad regnum perpetuum.
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Si ergo delectamini sedibus et sceptris, o reges populi, diligite sapientiam, ut in perpetuum regnetis :
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diligite lumen sapientiæ, omnes qui præestis populis.
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Quid est autem sapientia, et quemadmodum facta sit, referam, et non abscondam a vobis sacramenta Dei : sed ab initio nativitatis investigabo, et ponam in lucem scientiam illius, et non præteribo veritatem.
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Neque cum invidia tabescente iter habebo, quoniam talis homo non erit particeps sapientiæ.
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Multitudo autem sapientium sanitas est orbis terrarum, et rex sapiens stabilimentum populi est.
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Ergo accipite disciplinam per sermones meos, et proderit vobis.
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