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The Wisdom That is Mary

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Charles DeKoninck
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

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Abstract

H OW may we truly apply to the Blessed Virgin all that is said of Wisdom in the Sapiential Books? In answering this question we are attempting no innovation. This will be evident from the constant use made of the Doctors of the Church. In composing this study, whose main purpose is to assemble a certain amount of pertinent quotations relating to the Mother of God as Wisdom, we have been prompted rather by the miseries of our time which indicate more than ever our need to keep our eyes steadily fixed upon the most outstanding manifestations of the Wisdom an.d Mercy of God. Those texts which the liturgy devotes in their mystical sense to the Mother of God will be utilized merely to illustrate the conclusions deduced from the literal sense of other passages of