"Love righteousness," so as to show yourself just in your affairs. In fact, "the Lord is righteous, and he has loved righteousness," and he always loves it; "his face has looked on uprightness." In those days, he who said, "Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth," both loved righteousness greatly and counseled that it be loved. And another said, "If…

Therefore, son, pray, ask, as a certain author says in his verses, and repeat with him, "To you be praise, honor and power. You who are rich in all things, give me wisdom." And further, "Give me wisdom, who is enthroned beside you, and do not exclude me from the number of your children. Send her from your holy heavens, send her from your glorious throne,…

If you love God with your whole heart and meditate on the books of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, committing yourself to doing what you have read, then the spirit of wisdom will rest on you. Indeed, "all wisdom comes from the Lord" (and it could not be otherwise), since, "it has always been with him and exists from before time." If you seek…