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Wisdom 8:19-21
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 8:19-21
New Catholic Bible
19 As a child I was blessed with natural gifts,
and a good soul was my heritage,
20 or rather, being good, I had entered into an undefiled body.[a]
21 But realizing that I could not possess Wisdom[b] unless God gave her to me—
and this itself was an indication of understanding, to know the source of that gift—
I turned to the Lord and implored him
and with all my heart I said:
Footnotes
- Wisdom 8:20 The author does not intend to affirm that the soul exists first; rather, he corrects the impression given by the preceding verse that the body has preeminence.
- Wisdom 8:21 I could not possess Wisdom: this is the preferred reading; the Vulgate translated it as: “I could not be chaste.”
