Wisdom of God and Worldly Wisdom
Christ as the wisdom and power of God, hidden in mystery and predestined before the ages, contrasted with the false wisdom of the world. True wisdom destroys false wisdom; Paul speaks the wisdom of God among the perfect, not the wisdom of this age.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— Jerome identifies Christ as the power and wisdom of God, hidden in mystery, in whom all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden, predestined and prefigured in Law and Prophets.
"The wisdom of God is Christ; for Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. This wisdom is hidden in mystery, about which the title of the ninth psalm is inscribed"
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II. JEROME TO PAULINUS.
— True wisdom destroys false wisdom; Paul speaks wisdom among the perfect, not of this age or its princes.
"True wisdom will destroy false wisdom; and although the foolishness of the preaching of the cross exists, nevertheless Paul speaks wisdom among the perfect -- wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of the princes of this age"