The Boy And The King

Quis est ille: Puer pauper et sapiens, qui melior est rege sene et stulto? Dominus noster Jesus Christus, qui puer dictus est propter innocentiam et simplicitatem, quia peccatum non fecit, nec inventus est dolus in ore ejus. Iste puer cum esset dives factus est pauper pro nostra salute. Iste veraciter est sapiens, quia in ipso habitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis corporaliter. Quis est ille rex senex et stultus? Diabolus, qui pene ab ipso mundi exordio regnavit in genere humano, et ideo senex vocatur, et vere stultus est rex, quia qunato plures decipit, tanto sibi poenam accumulat. In regno quippe hujus regis senis et stulti, id est, diaboli, natus est puer optimus, Dominus videlicet Jesus Christus, qui factus est Rex regum, et Domnius dominantium. Honorius Augustodunensis, Quaestiones Et Ad Easdem Responsiones In Duos Salomonis Libros, In Ecclesiasten, Caput IV Source: Migne PL 172.340a-b

Why is it said: 'A boy who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish' ? 1 Our Lord Jesus Christ is called a boy on account of innocence and simplicity, because He did not commit sin, nor was cunning to be found in His mouth. 2 This boy when He was rich was made poor for our salvation. He is the one who truly is wise, because in Him all the fullness of divinity dwells bodily. 3 Who is the old and foolish king? The devil, who indeed has ruled over the human race from the beginning of this world, and therefore is named old, and certainly he is a foolish king because the more he deceives, the more he heaps up punishment for himself. In the kingdom of this old and foolish king the best of boys is born, obviously our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. 4 Honorius of Autun, Questions and Answers on Two Books of Solomon, On Ecclesiastes, Chapter 4 1 Eccl 4.13 2 1 Pet 2.22 3 Colos 2.19 4 Apoc 17.14, 19,16