behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 12. After thee. Solomon has given us some idea of his wisdom in the works which he has left. They were dictated by the Holy Spirit, who adorned his soul with so many graces. Calmet. 4:29. 30. Bible.—His knowledge of nature, and of the art of governing, excelled that of any of the kings of Israel; (Lyran, &chapter 2 Paral. 9) though Moses and the apostles had a more comprehensive knowledge of the mysteries of God. Calmet.—Yet, even granting that no mere man might come up to him, Jesus Christ, in whom the treasures of wisdom were contained, was far superior. Bible.—General propositions are often to be understood with a limitation. Menochius.