And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore.
Ver. 29. Even as the sand which is on the seashore.] Which as it taketh up a great deal of ground, and comprehendeth many grains, so did Solomon's heart innumerable notions, etiam minutissima quaeque: he had even a sea of knowledge within him, and might, better than Jerome, he said to know all that was knowable. Nihil enim ipsum penitus fugit: omnia perfecte novit, as one said of Albertus Magnus; he was skilful in everything: he was a very gulf of learning, as a late writer saith of Bishop Andrews; Omnium sclentiarum doctrinarumque area et emporium, as another saith of Abulensis, a closet or market of all sciences and learning. Think the same of Solomon.