Proverbs 9:10 (NKJV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Proverbs 9:10

Eastern Fathers

Desert Fathers

He also said, 'The beginning and the end is the fear of the Lord. For it is written, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Ps. 111:10) and, when Abraham built an altar the Lord said to him, "Now I know that you fear God" (Gen. 22:12).'

The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks ↗

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Bonaventure

The fear of God avails for obtaining the illumination of divine wisdom, because "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." For the fear of the Lord is the extrinsic principle of wisdom and the intrinsic principle and the complement of wisdom; because there is servile fear, and this is the initiator of wisdom, because, just as the needle introduces the thread and does not remain with the thread, so servile fear introduces wisdom and does not remain with wisdom. …

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 2 ↗

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