Disputation XIX: On the Gift of Wisdom

Although charity may make the yoke easy,¹ it is not relishing without wisdom, which affects the affective and the intellective powers together, and the rest, through redundancy; and it is deservedly called a GIFT, because it is not acquired by study, but given by inspiration; wherefore St. James says cap. 1. as the Seraphic Doctor has in Diaeta, tit. 7. cap. 4. toward the end: If anyone lacks Wisdom, let him ask it of God: Therefore it is compared there to the SUN, most splendid, illuminating all things; to HONEY, most flavorsome, whose taste makes all else insipid; to the SEA finally, most profound, whose ways and paths are unsearchable; see the Seraphic Doctor. ¹ Editor's note: the print opens the clause with spaced display capitals 'E V E licet' (OCR 'EVE licet'); no Latin reading is possible with 'EVE', so it is rendered 'Et licet' ('And although charity makes the yoke [easy]...'), preserving the print's display form here.