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Job 28:27

Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

Because God does not acquire wisdom from creatures themselves as we do, but rather he produces creatures according to his wisdom, he therefore continues, "Then," when he was making creatures, "he saw her," wisdom, in himself, insofar as he produces things in their being through the actual considerations of his wisdom. Wisdom was derived from him first to the angels who were made participants in the divine wisdom, and expressing this he says, "he made her known," manifesting his wisdom to them. …

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