Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. House. The sacred humanity, (Saint Ignatius Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. xvii. 20.) or the Church. Saint Gregory Mor. xxxiii. 15.—Here we may receive all instruction, the seven sacraments, and the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Pleasure had mentioned here attractions: now those of true wisdom are set before us. Calmet.—God sent his pastors at all times, to invite people to embrace the latter. They are all included in the number seven, both before and under the law, as well as in the gospel, where Saint Paul styles SS. Peter, James, and John, pillars. Galatians 2. This is the literal sense, on which the mystical is grounded, and both are intended by the Holy Ghost, intimating that the uncreated wisdom took flesh of the blessed Virgin, prepared the table of bread and wine, as Priest according to the order of Melchisedec, and chose the weak of this world to confound the strong, as Saint Augustine explain this passage. Sup. and q. 51. Worthington.