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Proverbs 2:5

Western Saints

Bede

Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, etc. If you seek with a careful heart, you will come to the experience of the loving fear of the Lord, which is not only the beginning but the perfection of heavenly wisdom in this life alone. And thus perfect love does not cast it out (I John IV), but makes it endure forever. And you will find the knowledge of his divinity, which makes perpetually blessed.

Commentary on Proverbs ↗

Bonaventure

"If you call upon wisdom and incline your heart to prudence and seek her as money and dig for her as for treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God." Prudential understanding teaches what is to be avoided, namely every evil. Whoever wishes to have this understanding must seek it with desire of heart and diligence of effort; and what then will you find? Certainly, the fear of the Lord and the knowledge of God. …

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 8 ↗