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You chose me over everyone else to be the king of your own people, to judge your sons and daughters.
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You told me to build a temple on your sacred mountain, an altar in Jerusalem, the city you chose as your home. It is a copy of that temple in heaven, which you prepared at the beginning.
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Wisdom is with you and knows your actions; she was present when you made the world. She knows what pleases you, what is right and in accordance with your commands.
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Send her from the holy heavens, down from your glorious throne, so that she may work at my side, and I may learn what pleases you.
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She knows and understands everything, and will guide me intelligently in what I do. Her glory will protect me.
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Then I will judge your people fairly, and be worthy of my father's throne. My actions will be acceptable.
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"Who can ever learn the will of God?
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Human reason is not adequate for the task, and our philosophies tend to mislead us,
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because our mortal bodies weigh our souls down. The body is a temporary structure made of earth, a burden to the active mind.
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All we can do is make guesses about things on earth; we must struggle to learn about things that are close to us. Who, then, can ever hope to understand heavenly things?
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No one has ever learned your will, unless you first gave him Wisdom, and sent your holy spirit down to him.