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As Solomon says in the Book of Wisdom original: "libro sapiencie"; likely referring to the Wisdom of Solomon or the general sapiential books of the Bible, all wisdom and all knowledge and all piety and every perfect and good gift descends and proceeds from Him who lives and reigns without beginning and without end, who is the true Father and Lord, and who created all things visible and invisible according to the pleasure of His will.

Because, as we find in Genesis, He formed man in His own image and His own likeness, and breathed into his face the breath of life. And He established and placed him within paradise, and gave him a commandment and a saving abstinence. And this was that he should eat of the fruits of all the trees existing in paradise, except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And He said to him: "If from? the fruit of this tree you eat, immediately in that hour in which you taste it, you shall die the death." And if Adam, the first man, had guarded and held to this abstinence—so healthy and so noble—the human race would not have fallen into such great foolishness and a lack of the sciences original: "defectum sciarum"; here 'sciences' refers to organized knowledge or branches of learning. But because of the instigation of the devil, who was always an envious enemy and adversary to the human race, he transgressed the commandment of God, who is powerful and rules over all things that were, are, and shall be. And therefore he fell into error, ingratitude, and foolishness, and lost every good and every v...?