56. It is well that He seeks
your beauty within, where He hath given unto you power to become
daughters of God:2218
He
seeks not of you a fair
flesh,
but fair
conduct, whereby to
bridle also the
flesh. He is not one
unto Whom any one can
lie concerning you, and make him
rage through
jealousy. See with how great
security ye
love Him, Whom ye
fear not
to offend by false suspicions.
Husband and
wife love each other, in
that they see each other: and what they see not, that they
fear
between themselves: nor have they sure
delight in what is visible,
while in what is concealed they usually suspect what is not. Ye in
Him, Whom ye see not with the
eyes, and behold by
faith, neither
have what is real to
blame, nor
fear lest haply ye offend Him by
what is false. If therefore ye should owe great
love to
husbands,
Him, for Whose sake ye would not have
husbands, how greatly ought
ye to
love? Let Him be
fixed in your whole
heart, Who for you was
fixed on the
Cross: let Him possess in your
soul all that, whatever
it be, that ye would not have occupied by
marriage. It is not
lawful for you to
love little Him, for Whose sake ye have not
loved
even what were
lawful. So
loving Him Who is meek and lowly of
heart, I have no fear for you of pride.
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