Rabanus Maurus — on Wis 8:2 (Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109)

“I have loved her, I have sought her from my youth. The lover of wisdom says that he has sought wisdom itself from his youth, that is, from the cradle of human life, and therefore he has truly found it, because he was a diligent seeker of it, according to that promise which she elsewhere made to her lovers, saying: Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who watches at my doors daily, and observes the posts of my gates (Prov. 8:34). Whoever finds me finds life, and will draw salvation from the Lord (Prov. 8:35). And again: I, she says, love those who love me, and those who watch for me in the morning will find me (Prov. 8:17). And I sought to take wisdom as my bride, and I became a lover of her beauty. I sought, he says, to take wisdom as my bride, that is, to join her to myself in a perpetual covenant, from whose companionship I know that I never wish to be separated, and whose beauty I have chosen to desire above all; for the beauty of wisdom is truth, which all who are truly religious especially long to know: because it is by this alone that all the elect of God hope to be made blessed in eternal rest. Therefore, Truth itself says to the Father in the Gospel: This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent (Jn. 17:3).”