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WISDOM
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shining clouds, or play in and out of the
sunny gardens of Paradise; these, as Renan
says,1 are from myriads of the sons of God,
surrounding Him like living embodiments
of His thought. In this tableau a female
form presses close within the Father’s arm,
and various suggestions have been made as
to its significance. M. Julien Klaczsko’s is
an interesting interpretation. May it not
represent Wisdom as described in Proverbs
viii. 22 ?
Prov. viii. 22. The Lord possessed me in the begin-
ning of his way, before his works of old.
23. I was set up from everlasting, from the begin-
ning, or ever the earth was.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought
forth; when there were no fountains abounding with
water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the
hills was I brought forth. . . .
27. When he prepared the heavens, I was there :
when he set a compass upon the face of the depth :
28. When he established the clouds above : when he
strengthened the fountains of the deep :
29. When he gave to the sea his decree, that the
waters should not pass his commandment: when he
appointed the foundations of the earth :
1 “Histoire d’Israel,” iv. p. 164.
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shining clouds, or play in and out of the
sunny gardens of Paradise; these, as Renan
says,1 are from myriads of the sons of God,
surrounding Him like living embodiments
of His thought. In this tableau a female
form presses close within the Father’s arm,
and various suggestions have been made as
to its significance. M. Julien Klaczsko’s is
an interesting interpretation. May it not
represent Wisdom as described in Proverbs
viii. 22 ?
Prov. viii. 22. The Lord possessed me in the begin-
ning of his way, before his works of old.
23. I was set up from everlasting, from the begin-
ning, or ever the earth was.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought
forth; when there were no fountains abounding with
water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the
hills was I brought forth. . . .
27. When he prepared the heavens, I was there :
when he set a compass upon the face of the depth :
28. When he established the clouds above : when he
strengthened the fountains of the deep :
29. When he gave to the sea his decree, that the
waters should not pass his commandment: when he
appointed the foundations of the earth :
1 “Histoire d’Israel,” iv. p. 164.