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Rh was, as we have seen, conceived as mainly intellectual. The reason for this is because the Holy Spirit brings the gift of Christ, and is his Spirit; 'he shall bear witness of me' and 'he shall take of mine and shall declare it unto you'. In this way also Christianity gives a new meaning to the words of Isaiah.

Wisdom then, Σοφία, Sapientia, I would suggest, is the moral aspect of the mind, akin to the holy and exalted personifications in the Wisdom books of the later Hebrew scriptures. We always instinctively associate goodness with the word. 'He is so wise ' could not be well said of an intellectual rascal. Wisdom, then, is the power of appreciating Goodness.

Understanding in the Septuagint is Σύνεσις, 'comprehension, understanding, judgement,