{"id":26255,"date":"2011-02-16T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/wisdom-and-knowledge-stimulate\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:00:26","slug":"wisdom-and-knowledge-stimulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/wisdom-and-knowledge-stimulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom and knowledge stimulates virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><i>God&#8217;s promise to us is to remain with use for ever.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Wisdom has built herself a house, and she has set up<br \/>\nseven pillars.&#8221; To man, who was made in the image of God when the rest of<br \/>\ncreation was created, Wisdom gave the seven gifts of the Spirit to enable man<br \/>\nto believe in Christ and to keep His commandments. By means of these gifts, the<br \/>\nspiritual man grows and develops until, through firm faith and the supernatural<br \/>\ngraces he receives, he finally reaches maturity. Knowledge stimulates virtue,<br \/>\nand virtue reflections knowledge. The fear of the Lord, understanding, and<br \/>\nknowledge give true orientation to his natural wisdom. Fortitude makes him<br \/>\neager to seek understanding of the will of God, as revealed in the laws by<br \/>\nwhich the entire creation is governed. Counsel distinguishes these most sacred<br \/>\nand eternal laws of God from anything opposed to them, for these laws are meant<br \/>\nfor man to ponder, to proclaim, and to fulfill. Insight disposes man to embrace<br \/>\nthese expressions of God&#8217;s will and to reject whatever contravenes them.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Office of Readings<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">a<br \/>\ncommentary on the Book of Proverbs by Procopius of Gaza, bishop<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s promise to us is to remain with use for ever. &#8220;Wisdom has built herself a house, and she has set up seven pillars.&#8221; To man, who was made in the image of God when the rest of creation was created, Wisdom gave the seven gifts of the Spirit to enable man to believe in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/wisdom-and-knowledge-stimulate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisdom and knowledge stimulates virtue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2673,2034,2674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}