Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Chronicles 28:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 90, footnote 3 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1322 (In-Text, Margin)

3. Who, then, is this Shunamite, this wife and maid, so glowing as to warm the cold, yet so holy as not to arouse passion in him whom she warmed? Let Solomon, wisest of men, tell us of his father’s favorite; let the man of peace recount to us the embraces of the man of war.[1 Chronicles 28:3] “Get wisdom,” he writes, “get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee: love her and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her and she shall promote thee. She shall bring thee to honor when thou dost ...