CHAPTER XXXI
SOLOMON, WITH A LARGE MULTITUDE, COMES TO THE PALACE OF WISDOM
(Solomon comes forward, wishing to obtain Wisdom as his Spouse.)
Now when I prepare to listen to what was to befall here, a great noise and tumult arises, and as all looked round, I also did thus. And I see, entering the palace, one clothed in bright splendour, bearing a crown and a golden sceptre, and a huge company followed him. All were afeard, and the eyes of all—mine also—were turned to him. Then approaching nearer, he declared that he had thus been honoured by the highest God of gods, that he could behold the world more freely than all who had come before him or would come after him, and more than this, that he would take Wisdom, the ruler of the world, for wife; therefore had he sought her.
