Chapter 12. Her Zeal and Learning

¹ How great, too, is her gentleness! And her love of learning surpasses anything one might suppose possible in a human being. What book—even among the most closely reasoned and weighty—has escaped her, what account handed down from the fathers? At one time you will find her occupied with the more advanced texts, taking in doctrine as solid food; at another, spending her time among the simpler ones, as though among the flowers of a delightful and pleasant meadow. In short, she meditates on the law of the Lord day and night, and whether rising, walking, or sitting, she pursues the divine oracles, and writes them threefold upon the tablets of her heart, as David, Moses, and Solomon declared one should.