Wisdom 7: 22- 8: 1
| 7:22 | For in her is the spirit of understanding: holy, singular, manifold, subtle, perceptive, lively, chaste, reliable, gracious, loving, good, astute, who forbids nothing beneficial, |
| 7:23 | humane, kind, steadfast, trustworthy, secure, having all virtue, watching for all things and grasping all things with a pure and most delicate understanding of spirit. |
| 7:24 | For wisdom is more active than all active things, yet she reaches everywhere because of her purity. |
| 7:25 | For she is a breath of the virtue of God and a genuine emanation from the purity of the almighty God, and therefore nothing unclean can invade her. |
| 7:26 | Indeed, she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of the majesty of God, and the image of his goodness. |
| 7:27 | And though she is one, she can do all things; and, unchanging in herself, she renews all things, and throughout the nations she conveys herself to holy souls, establishing them as friends and prophets of God. |
| 7:28 | For God loves none but those who dwell with wisdom. |
| 7:29 | For she is more spectacular than the sun, and above the array of all the stars; compared with the light, she is found to be before it. |
| 7:30 | Indeed, after her comes night, but wisdom will not be overcome by malice. |
| 8:1 | Thus, she reaches mightily from one end all the way to the other, and she orders all things sweetly. |
Luke 17: 20-25
17:20 Then he was questioned by the Pharisees: “When does the kingdom of God arrive?” And in response, he said to them: “The kingdom of God arrives unobserved.
17:21 And so, they will not say, ‘Behold, it is here,’ or ‘Behold, it is there.’ For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
17:22 And he said to his disciples: “The time will come when you will desire to see one day of the Son of man, and you will not see it.
17:23 And they will say to you, ‘Behold, he is here,’ and ‘Behold, he is there.’ Do not choose to go out, and do not follow them.
17:24 For just as lightning flashes from under heaven and shines to whatever is under heaven, so also will the Son of man be in his day.
17:25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.