Bonaventure, on Wis 7:25

“For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emanation of the glory of the almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.”

“(Verse 25). For it is the vapor of the power of God, that is, emanating from God the Father, as vapor from heat: the Gloss: "That is, to warm the cold of our unbelief": Sirach 24: "Like an uncut Lebanon I sent forth vapor in my dwelling." And it is a certain emanation of the brightness of almighty God, that is, emanating from God the Father, as splendor from light, namely to illuminate the darkness of our intellect: Hebrews 1: "Who being the splendor of glory" etc.; likewise Isaiah 62: "Until his just one goes forth as splendor." Pure, without admixture of darkness: 1 John 1: "God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all." Moreover this procession is without diminution of the paternal substance, or separation, but with personal distinction, according to that of Athanasius: "Neither confounding the persons, nor separating the substance." And because it proceeds as light, which cannot be contaminated, therefore nothing defiled, by defilement either culpable or even natural, falls upon it, namely uncreated wisdom: the Gloss: "Evil does not approach the highest good."”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.