Testimonia - the Oracles of the Lord.
1. O Sapientia / O Wisdom.
2. O Adonai / O Lord.
3. O Radix Jesse / O Root of Jesse.
4. O Caudius David / O Key of David.
5. O Oriens splendor / O Radiant dawn.
6. O Rex gentium / O King of the nations.
7. O Emmanuel rex et legifer noster / O God-with-us, Our King and
Lawgiver.
1. O Sapientia / O Wisdom.
(Jesus, the Wisdom of God and the Word of God who fills the earth with grace.)
The Lord possessed me [Sophia/Wisdom] in the beginning of His
way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the
beginning ... when he prepared the heavens I was there: when He set a compass
upon the face of the deep ... then I was by Him as one brought up with him.
(Proverbs 8:22-30)
Wisdom has been created before all things,
Intelligence and understanding from Eternity
(Sirah 1.9)
Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling place was assigned her in the heavens.
Wisdom came to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And found no dwelling place,
Then Wisdom returned to her place,
And took her seat among the angels.
(I Enoch 42. 1-2)
And they that love Him will be filled with the Law.
He that seeks Law will be filled with it.
(Sirah 2:16; 35.15)
Out of her mouth goeth forth Righteousness,
Law and Mercy she bears on her tongue.
(Proverbs 3:16)
... no evil overpowers Wisdom.
(Wisdom, 7:30)
He that created me pitched my tent
And said, Dwell thou in Jacob.
Let thy inheritance be Israel: ...
(Sirah 24:8-12)
(Christ the power of God; his right hand and his left and the arm of the
Lord as well.)
Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the
earth and the Heavens are the work of Thy hands.
(Psalm 101.26)
Who hath believed our report,
And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
(Isaiah 6:9-10)
(Christ, spiritual food.)
Come unto me all ye that desire me,
Fill yourselves with my fruits;
For my memorial is sweeter than honey,
My inheritance than the honey-comb.
(Sirah 24:19)
He that cometh to me shall never hunger,
He that believeth in me shall never thirst.
(John 6:35)