Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
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Evagrius Ponticus
AD 399
He who has opened his heart through purity, contemplates the words of God in their practical, physical and theological sense. Accordingly, the whole corpus of Scripture may be divided into three parts: ethical, physical and theological. Consequently, Proverbs corresponds to the first part, Ecclesiastes to the second, and Song of Songs to the third. .
Ways. Repeatedly. (Bossuet; Tirinus) (2 Corinthians xii. 8., and Amos i. 11.) (Calmet)
Protestants, "have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge? ""Shalishim "perfect, (Pagnin) or "three things "(Montanus) means also (Haydock) such as might suit princes and great officers. (Calmet)
Now, there are three kinds of spiritual knowledge—tropology, allegory and anagogy—about which it is said in Proverbs, “But you describe those things for yourself in threefold fashion according to the largeness of your heart.” .
As human beings consist of body, soul and spirit, so also Scripture consists of the body of letters, by which the ignorant man is benefited; and that is called “manual instruction.” Second, it consists of soul, that is, a higher meaning, which the one who is higher in learning understands. It also consists of spirit, that is, a more sublime and spiritual contemplation which those who are perfect understand and speak. Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, Fragment
