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Posted by Yani S. Hannum, SOSA on November 10, 2007, 1:31 pm
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some places this spiritual meaning is so clearly expressed that it would
require a blindness, like that which the flesh imposes on the spirit when it
is subdued by it, not to recognise it.
See, then, what has been the prudence of God. This meaning is concealed
under another in an infinite number of passages, and in some, though rarely,
it is revealed; but yet so that the passages in which it is concealed are
equivocal and can suit both meanings; whereas the passages where it is
disclosed are unequivocal and can only suit the spiritual meaning.
So that this cannot lead us into error and could only be misunderstood by so
carnal a people.
For when blessings are promised in abundance, what was to prevent them from
understanding the true blessings, but their covetousness, which limited the
meaning to worldly goods? But those whose only good was in God referred them
to God alone. For there are two principles, which divide the wills of men,
covetousness and charity. Not that covetousness cannot exist along with
faith in God, nor charity with worldly riches; but covetousness uses God and
enjoys the world, and charity is the opposite.
Now the ultim
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