1/4/2024 0 Comments Eternal lands calculator![]() ![]() For not knowing the right, he bore with delight the darkness of his state of condemnation.īut after he saw a thing for him to delight in, he likewise perceived a thing to grieve over, and what he underwent he felt was grievous, in that what he had lost was made known as sweet. Man’s woe then was found to be heavy in the balance, in that the ill, which he was laid under, he only knew in his Redeemer's appearing presence. But He Whom man had forsaken within, having assumed a fleshly nature, came forth God without and when He presented Himself outwardly, He restored man, who was cast forth without, to the interior life, that He might henceforth perceive his losses, that he might henceforth lament the sorrows of his blind state. For man, being created for the contemplation of his Maker, but banished from the interior joys in justice to his deserts, gone headlong into the wofulness of a corrupt condition, undergoing the darkness of his exile, was at once subject to the punishment of his sin, and knew it not so that he imagined his place of exile to be his home, and so rejoiced under the weight of his corrupt condition as in the liberty of a state of salvation. Now by dying He proved the woe to be of heavy weight, and by releasing it shewed the sin to be light in mercy's scale a, Who vouchsafed this instance of grace first, that He made our punishment to be known to us. For in the hand of the Father having been made like scales of a marvellous balancing, in the one scale He hung our woe in His own Person, and in the other our sins. But when touched by the scourges, he gave thanks, when galled with words, he answered aright, and being smitten he makes it appear how little he esteemed the well-being of the body.īut putting the greater weight in the scale of mercy, He lightened our transgressions in pardoning them. Whence, that no temptation whatever might be lacking to blessed Job, not only scourges strike him from above, but the sayings of his friends in talk gall him, being sorer than scourges, that the soul of the holy man, being driven hither and thither, might, burst forth in the emotion of wrath and haughtiness, and that all the purity he had lived in might be defiled by head-strong pride of speech. For oftentimes the tortures of speech assail us worse than any pains, and while they make us rise up in our vindication, they lay us low in impatience. Some men's minds are more tormented by scourges than reproaches, but some are more wounded by reproaches than by scourges. VOLUME I - THE SECOND PART.BOOK VII.He explains the whole of the sixth chapter, except the three last verses, part allegorically and in part morally.i LITERAL INTERPRETATION1.
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