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Chapter XXII.—He Prays God that
He Would Explain This Most Entangled Enigma.
28. My soul yearns to know this most entangled
enigma. Forbear to shut up, O Lord my God, good Father,—through
Christ I beseech Thee,—forbear to shut up these things, both
usual and hidden, from my desire, that it may be hindered from
penetrating them; but let them dawn through Thy enlightening mercy,
O Lord. Of whom shall I inquire concerning these things? And to
whom shall I with more advantage confess my ignorance than to Thee,
to whom these my studies, so vehemently kindled towards Thy
Scriptures, are not troublesome? Give that which I love; for I do
love, and this hast Thou given me. Give, Father, who truly knowest
to give good gifts unto Thy children.1043
Give, since I have undertaken to
know, and trouble is before me until Thou dost open it.1044
Through
Christ, I beseech Thee, in His name, Holy of Holies, let no man
interrupt me. For I believed, and therefore do I speak.1045
This is my
hope; for this do I live, that I may contemplate the delights of
the Lord.1046
Behold,
Thou hast made my days old,1047
and they pass away, and
in what manner I know
not. And we speak as to time and time, times and times,—“How
long is the time since he said this?” “How long the time since
he did this?” and, “How long the time since I saw that?” and,
“This syllable hath double the time of that single short
syllable.” These words we speak, and these we hear; and we are
understood, and we understand. They are most manifest and most
usual, and the same things again lie hid too deeply, and the
discovery of them is new.
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