OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 7:8

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I preferred her before sceptres and thrones. I considered riches nothing in comparison to her.

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Verse 8. Preferred. I did not ask for extensive dominions, and so forth Calmet.—In Proverbs 8:10. and so forth as well as here, some things refer to the uncreated, and others to created wisdom. Menochius.

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