The way of piety or Fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion, equanimity, stability) is the path to eternal life, because those who fear God are those who keep the commandments: "To keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.", 1 Timothy 6:14
And patience or perseverance united with eternal life reveals the Father to us through the Son: "Which God will bring about in his own time - God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.", 1 Timothy 6:15.
This is so because Paul in the epistle to the Ephesians describes God in a very particular way: "Who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.", 1 Timothy 6:16
Wisdom is frequently compared with the spiritual light, because wisdom illuminates the reason of man, wisdom is the knowledge of the correct means of living. Paul is telling us with a metaphor that God is the wisdom itself: God dwells in unapproachable light.
According to Thomas Aquinas, God is pure intelligence that enjoys itself or, in other words, it contemplates itself, wisdom is an entelechy, that is, its purpose is within itself, that is why the apostle says: "Who alone is immortal".
It must be understood that this is so because wisdom is the most perfect entity that exists, it is a primordial and eternal entity according to Aristotle's metaphysics. Paul tells us something else: that no one has seen and no one can see; in other words, there are objects that can be perceived with the senses such as physical objects, but there are other objects that can only be perceived with the intelligence, such as genres or universals. Wisdom can only be perceived by a special form of intelligence: the gift of knowledge, which is the reason that loves the good.
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