* And Solomon's wisdom excelled (1 Kings iv. 30). Thou findest that when Solomon desired to build the Temple he sent to Pharaoh Necho a request to send him artisans on hire. Pharaoh assembled his astrologers, who pointed out to him such artisans as were destined to die in the course of that year, and these he despatched to Solomon; but he, through the Holy Ghost, seeing the fate that impended, provided each of them with a shroud and sent them back to Pharaoh with the message, " Hast thou no shrouds in which to bury thine own dead? Behold here I have provided them with them! " For he was wiser than all men" (1 Kings iv. 31); "than all men,® even than the first man, Adam Yalkut Eliezer, fol. 65, col. 2, n. 36.