Wisdom 9:6

This is also read in the book of Job: Is not wisdom found among the aged, and does not understanding come with long life? With Him are wisdom and strength; He has counsel and understanding. If He tears down, none can rebuild; if He shuts a man in, none can open (Job 12:12-14). It is clearly evident that human weakness, unless it is sustained by divine help, will fail in countless ways and be reduced to nothing. For by the grace of God we are saved, and every perfect gift comes from above. Aware of this, Paul says of himself: Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death? The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 7:24). And again he says: By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me (1 Cor. 15:10).

(Vers. 6.). And if anyone etc., in this charity is intimated, he will be consummate, that is, perfect: the Gloss says: "In judgment"; among the sons of men, who are born, namely, from man and woman, in distinction from the Son of Man, that is, of the Virgin alone, concerning whom Matthew chapter sixteen says: "Whom do men say the Son of Man is"? And he says: consummate among the sons of men, because one can be a mere man by nature. If from him it shall have fled or departed, namely as from one unworthy and a sinner, according to that passage above, chapter one: "Into a malevolent soul wisdom will not enter": your wisdom: the Gloss says: "Divine", not worldly. For worldly wisdom does not flee on account of sin: Jeremiah chapter four: "They are wise to do evil". As nothing, namely of morals, not of nature, he will be reckoned, namely before God and his Saints: below, chapter thirteen: "Vain are all men in whom there is not the knowledge of God": for by grace a man is what he is with respect to moral being: whence First Corinthians chapter fifteen: "By the grace of God I am what I am"; likewise, without charity a man is nothing, as is clear from First Corinthians chapter thirteen: and according to Augustine, a sinner is nothing, namely insofar as he is such.