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 1 Pre|      writes in the person of one who contemplates God, and seeks
 2 Pre|      faith, in the person of one who investigates, in a course
 3 Pre|   treatise, in the person of one who strives to lift his mind
 4 Pre|    reverend Archbishop of Lyons, who discharges the apostolic
 5 Pre|        apostolic office in Gaul, who instructed me to this effect
 6 1  |       how shall I come to it? Or who shall lead me to that light
 7 2  |            AND so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to
 8 4  |           not at all. For no one who understands what fire and
 9 4  |          words. So, then, no one who understands what God is
10 4  |      cannot be conceived. And he who thoroughly understands this,
11 4  |      non-existent. Therefore, he who understands that God so
12 6  |         be these than not be. He who in any way knows, is not
13 6  |      body, but a supreme Spirit, who is superior to body? But,
14 6  |      sake of cognition, --for he who feels obtains knowledge
15 7  |           but impotence. For, he who is capable of these things
16 7  |         against these.~He, then, who is thus capable is so not
17 7  |       For, often we say to a man who denies the existence of
18 8  |        wretched, and spare those who sin against you; and not
19 9  |         the wicked. He is better who is good to the righteous
20 9  | righteous and the wicked than he who is good to the righteous
21 9  |      justice is that to give him who merits eternal death everlasting
22 9  |        any wicked being. For, he who is good, both to the righteous
23 9  |        wicked, is better than he who is good to the wicked alone;
24 9  |         the wicked alone; and he who is good to the wicked, both
25 9  |          them, is better than he who is good by punishing them
26 9  |          all and supremely just, who lacks nothing, bestows goods
27 9  |          the wicked and on those who are guilty toward you.~The
28 9  |       that you are good to those who sin against you; and in
29 9  |      should make good only those who are not good, and not the
30 11 |       evils to the evil. For, he who requites both good and evil
31 11 |     deserts is more just than he who so requites the good alone.
32 11 |         comprehend why, of those who are alike wicked, you save
33 14 |        and yet not seen by those who seek him. ~HAS you found
34 16 |         how far are you from me, who am so near to you! How far
35 17 |     after your ineffable manner, who hast given them to objects
36 18 |      grief and mourning meet him who seeks for joy and gladness.
37 18 |      sinned. In him we all lost, who kept easily, and wickedly
38 22 |          alone is what he is and who be is. --All things need
39 22 |          you are; and you are he who you are. For, what is one
40 22 |          forever. And you are he who you are, properly and simply;
41 23 |        is nothing in the Father, who utters it, which is not
42 24 |      great is the delight in him who has made these delectable
43 25 |       how great, belong to those who enjoy this good. --Joy is
44 25 |   blessedness and joy of others.~WHO shall enjoy this good? And
45 25 |        own accord; and that God, who loves them, will not take
46 25 |          take it away from those who love him against their will;
47 26 |       joy shall enter into those who rejoice; but they who rejoice
48 26 |      those who rejoice; but they who rejoice shall wholly enter
49 26 |       your servants shall enter, who shall enter into the joy
50 26 |     enter into your joy, O Lord, who are the Three and the One