Solomon

Solomon, at any rate, says:

"And you will incline your heart to understanding;

"Fortify wisdom," says Solomon, "and she will exalt you;

Solomon is styled king over all Israel.

Thus Solomon received tolls for horses and linen that passed over the Isthmus of Syria.

In this view, Solomon says, God hath created men upright, that is, in simplicity, but they have sought out many inventions, or, in the language of Philo, they have inclined to subtilty.

Solomon is rejected, but when already possessed by strange women and made over to the idols of the Moabites and Sidonians.

In short, both an eternal throne and an eternal kingdom suit Christ rather than Solomon, a temporal king.

" This bride Christ fetches for himself, even through Solomon, from the calling of the nations.

Again, through the wise Solomon in the Proverbs He is created:

This very thing the wise Solomon enjoins, and sometimes brings before us the unashamed worker, the ant, and through it sketches for us the practical way;

That you yourself may become for us, in the words of Solomon, a vine in bloom, a fruitful tendril—not putting forth a cluster of grapes, but pressing out from the clusters their dew for the thirsty.

Then indeed, then, I understood and saw, and behold, all present things are vanity and a striving after wind, as Solomon the most wise also says somewhere in his writings.

and strengthening it with longing and love, he very seasonably took up that saying of Solomon:

For if Solomon reigned, it was within the borders of Judah alone;

You are my Son, today I have begotten you, ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession), you will not be able to claim Solomon, David's son, for this prophecy rather than Christ, the Son of God, nor that the ends of the earth were promised to David's son, who reigned within Judaea alone, rather than to Christ the Son of God, who has …

In the more mature kingship which presently succeeded, the military functions of the King are most prominent in Saul and David, but the judicial authority again manifests itself in Solomon.

Him whom they had not thoroughly admitted, they could neither know nor fear, nor thence be wise — straying, of course, from the beginning of wisdom, that is, the fear of God.

And if I look round upon their examples—of a certain David thrusting marriages upon himself even through blood, of a certain Solomon rich even in wives—being bidden to follow the better things, you have also Joseph wedded to one, and on this account I dare to call him better than his father;

Solomon, endowed by the Lord with all grace and wisdom, is led into idolatry by women.

Our instruction is from the Porch of Solomon, who had himself handed down that the Lord must be sought in simplicity of heart.

For in the Proverbs too of Solomon — which we call paroimiai — concerning the adulterer specifically, as nowhere expiable, he says, "But the adulterer, through want of senses, acquires the perdition of his own soul;

but I will also embrace such a God out of the confidence of reason, by which reason he too pronounced himself more than a homicide, in the person of his own Wisdom, by the voice of Solomon.

the God of the Hebrews rewarded the virtue of Solomon with hundreds of wives and concubines;