15 Reasoning is intellect accompanied by a life of righteousness, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. (WEB) 16 Wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes. (WEB) 17 This is contained in the education of the law, by means of which we learn divine things reverently and human things profitably. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:15–17
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