“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,” said Solomon. “To search out a matter is the glory of kings.”22 Francis Bacon, a sixteenth-century English philosopher, had a fascinating take on this proverb: Solomon, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of fame and renown, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith, “The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out”; as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine
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