Wisdom And Angels

Quid est quod ait: Sapientia confortabit sapientem super decem principes civitatis? Quae est haec sapientia, aut qui sunt isti principes? SALONIUS. Sapientia in hoc loco Dominum Iesum Christum significat, qui est virtus et sapientia Dei: principes civitatis, sancti angeli sunt intelligendi, qui sunt principes civitatis, id est coelestis Ierusalem. Sunt et principes Ecclesiae, quia ipsi quotidie regunt eam et custodiunt. VERANUS. Cur ergo decem dicuntur? SALONIUS. Quia decem fuerunt ordines angelorum, sed unus cecidit per superbiam; et idcirco boni angeli semper ad hoc laborant, ut de hominibus numerus adimpleatur, et perveniat ad perfectum numerum, id est denarium. VERANUS. Quomodo ergo sapientia confortat sapientem super decem principes civitatis? SALONIUS. Quia maius est auxilium sapientiae, id est Domini Iesu Christi, quam sit angelorum. Salonius Viennensis, Expositio Mystica in Ecclesiasten Source: Migne PL 53.1005d-1006a

Veranus: 'Wisdom shall strengthen wisdom more than ten princes of a city.' 1 Salonius: In this passage wisdom signifies the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the virtue and power of God. 2 The princes of the city is are to be understood as angels who are the princes of the city which is the heavenly Jerusalem. And they are princes of the Church because they rule and watch over it every day. Veranus: Why are there ten? Salonius: Because there were ten orders of angels, but one fell through pride. And therefore the good angels always labour for this, that they might restore their number from men and achieve the perfect number which is ten. Veranus: How, then, does wisdom strengthen wisdom more then the ten princes of a city? Salonius: Because the help of wisdom, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ, is greater that that of angels. Salonius of Geneva, A Spiritual Exposition of Ecclesiastes 1 Eccl 7.20 2 1 Cor 1.24