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Wisdom, next, is the knowledge of divine and human matters and the causes of these.
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This, in turn, is education in the law, by which we learn divine matters reverently and human affairs to our advantage.
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Now the kinds of wisdom are rational judgment, justice, courage, and self-control.
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Rational judgment is supreme over all of these, since by means of it reason rules over the emotions.
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The two most comprehensive types of the emotions are pleasure and pain; and each of these is by nature concerned with both body and soul.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.