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Footnote 3 - Q

In Jewish tradition, Wisdom is frequently personified as a feminine figure who dwells with God in heaven. In Wisdom literature, she is sometimes depicted as descending to earth to speak her words of wisdom; sometimes she simply sends her spirit into prophets deemed worthy. So, for example, in the Wisdom of Solomon 7:27 we read: “in every generation [Wisdom] passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God and prophets.”

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