Before all other things wisdom was created, shrewd understanding is everlasting. For whom has the root of wisdom ever been uncovered? Her resourceful ways, who knows them? One only is wise, terrible indeed, seated on his throne, the Lord. The Lord himself has created her, looked on her and assessed her, and poured her out…[read more]
And they said: ‘Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.…[read more]
Then Jesus and his disciples went toward the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he questioned the disciples and said to them: “Who are people saying that I am?” They said in reply: “[Some say] John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets.” And he questioned them further: But…[read more]
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in His heart: ‘I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of…[read more]
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of…[read more]
He then rose up, left that place, and set out on a journey to the region around Tyre. . . . Right away upon hearing about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an evil spirit came and threw herself down at his feet. (But this woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by…[read more]
No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the…[read more]
Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed. Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested…[read more]
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the waters. . . . Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: every kind of plant that bears seed and every kind of fruit tree…[read more]
You see, Herod was afraid of John. He also realized that John was a just and holy man, and even protected him. When he heard him speak he was very perplexed, yet he enjoyed listening to him. Mark 6: 20 In their commentary on this passage, John R. Donohue and Daniel J. Harrington point out…[read more]
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