Homilies on Isaiah, Homilia III
Seven women seek one who takes away reproach§1
1Seven women suffer reproach and seek the one who can take it away; they will eat their own bread and wear their own clothes. They are one Spirit — the spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Worldly wisdom heaps shame on Christ’s wisdom.
Latin · §1
Septem mulieres patiuntur opprobrium et quaerunt eum qui possit auferre opprobrium earum. Promittunt suum panem manducare et vestimentis suis operiri. Septem mulieres una sunt — Spiritus Dei: spiritus sapientiae et intellectus, consilii et virtutis, scientiae et pietatis, timoris Domini. Singulae patiuntur opprobrium a falsis sapientiis saeculi.
Not blasphemy to honor the Spirit’s gifts§2
2Do not stone the preacher for glorifying the Spirit. The seven seek a man to take away their shame — and that man is Jesus, whose name is invoked over every gift of the Spirit.
Latin · §2
Nec quasi blasphemantem me lapidetis dum velim glorificare Spiritum. Mulieres quaerentes quem adsumant apprehendent virum — Christum — ut nomen eius invocetur super eas.
Jesus’ name on the seven; Amen§3
3We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes; only let your name be called over us — take away our reproach. Wisdom’s name is Jesus; he truly removed the shame. Pray that the sevenfold Spirit rest on him and on us in Christ Jesus, to whom be glory. Amen.
Latin · §3
Panem nostrum manducabimus et vestimentis nostris operiemur. Nomen sapientiae Iesus; invocetur nomen tuum super nos, aufer opprobrium nostrum. Abstulit opprobrium Iesus. Oremus ut septem spiritus in eo requiescant et nobis communio harum virtutum detur in Christo Iesu, cui gloria. Amen.