IV. O virtus sapientie
The Strength and Wings of Wisdom
Wisdom's singular living power encompasses all things through three wings—one soaring on high, one laboring on earth, and one flying everywhere—and is praised as is fitting.
Antiphon: O strength of wisdom, you who encompass and have encompassed all things by grasping them in a single way — a way that has life — bearing three wings, of which one flies on high, another sweats with earthbound labor, and the third flies everywhere at once. Praise be to you, as is fitting, O Wisdom.
Read the original Latin
Antiphona: O virtus sapientie, que circuiens circuisti, comprehendendo omnia in una via, que habet vitam tres alas habens, quarum una in altum volat et altera de terra sudat et tercia undique volat. Laus tibi sit, sicut de decet, o sapientia.
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