OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 1:2

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to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

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Verse 2. To know. This is the design of these parables. Calmet.—They tend to instruct both the unexperienced and the wise. verse 5. There are three sorts of wisdom: the divine, which is God himself; (chapter 3:16) the supernatural, which is his gift, to lead us into all virtue; and the worldly, which is mixed with error, and so forth Worthington. Wisd. 7:25.

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