Par.

  1 1 |            Our labors and attempts are in vain without God. Man
  2 1 |         may find you.~Lord, if you are not here, where shall I
  3 1 |           being absent? But if you are everywhere, why do I not
  4 1 |          know your face. Lord, you are my God, and you are my Lord,
  5 1 |            you are my God, and you are my Lord, and never have
  6 1 |          upon us? Wretches that we are, whence have we been driven
  7 1 |           been driven out; whither are we driven on? Whence hurled?
  8 2 |             to understand that you are as we believe; and that
  9 2 |           we believe; and that you are that which we believe. And
 10 2 |        indeed, we believe that you are a being than which nothing
 11 3 |         exist;. and this being you are, O Lord, our God.~So truly,
 12 4 |    understands what fire and water are can conceive fire to be
 13 5 |          things from nothing.~WHAT are you, then, Lord God, than
 14 5 |         can be conceived? But what are you, except that which,
 15 5 |            good is? Therefore, you are just, truthful, blessed,
 16 6 |            to be these things; how are you sensible, if you are
 17 6 |           are you sensible, if you are not a body; or omnipotent,
 18 6 |           if only corporeal things are sensible, since the senses
 19 6 |        senses encompass a body and are in a body, how are you sensible,
 20 6 |        body and are in a body, how are you sensible, although you
 21 6 |         you sensible, although you are not a body, but a supreme
 22 6 |    Therefore, O Lord, although you are not a body yet you are truly
 23 6 |         you are not a body yet you are truly sensible in the highest
 24 7 |         omnipotent, although there are many things of which he
 25 7 |         power against him.~BUT how are you omnipotent, if you are
 26 7 |         are you omnipotent, if you are not capable of all things?
 27 7 |          done, and the like. --how are you capable of all things?
 28 7 |         speech, just as many words are improperly applied, as when
 29 7 |           power, the more powerful are adversity and perversity
 30 7 |            our God, the more truly are you omnipotent, since you
 31 7 |          you omnipotent, since you are capable of nothing through
 32 8 |             of compassion.~BUT how are you compassionate, and,
 33 8 |           passionless? For, if you are passionless, you do not
 34 8 |          compassionate. But if you are not compassionate, whence
 35 8 |           the wretched? How, then, are you compassionate and not
 36 8 |           Lord, unless because you are compassionate in terms of
 37 8 |          of your being.~Truly, you are so in terms of our experience,
 38 8 |            our experience, but you are not so in terms of your
 39 8 |            feeling. Therefore, you are both compassionate, because
 40 8 |          compassionate because you are affected by no sympathy
 41 9 |           spare the wicked, if you are all just and supremely just?
 42 9 |          compassion flows.~For you are all just and supremely just,
 43 9 |            supremely just, yet you are kind even to the wicked,
 44 9 |           wicked, even because you are all supremely good. For
 45 9 |         them alone. Therefore, you are compassionate, because you
 46 9 |         compassionate, because you are all supremely good. And,
 47 9 |            wicked and on those who are guilty toward you.~The depth
 48 9 |          of your goodness that you are good to those who sin against
 49 9 |          with justice. For, if you are compassionate only because
 50 9 |     compassionate only because you are supremely good, and supremely
 51 9 |    supremely good only because you are supremely just, truly you
 52 9 |          supremely just, truly you are compassionate even because
 53 9 |     compassionate even because you are supremely just. Help me,
 54 9 |            I say.~Truly, then, you are compassionate even because
 55 9 |     compassionate even because you are just. Is, then, your compassion
 56 9 |           make good only those who are not good, and not the wicked
 57 10|            sparing the wicked, you are as just, according to your
 58 10|          according to ours, as you are compassionate, according
 59 10|            for you to destroy, you are compassionate, not because
 60 10|          effect (effectum); so you are just, not because you requite
 61 11|            How all the ways of God are compassion and truth; and
 62 11|          all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth (Psalms
 63 11|         should be so good that you are good in sparing also; and
 64 11|       comprehend why, of those who are alike wicked, you save some
 65 11|     supreme justice.~So, then, you are truly sensible (sensibilis),
 66 11|            and passionless, as you are living, wise, good, blessed,
 67 12|          undoubtedly, whatever you are, you are through nothing
 68 12| undoubtedly, whatever you are, you are through nothing else than
 69 12|           yourself. Therefore, you are the very life whereby you
 70 12|           the wisdom wherewith you are wise; and the very goodness
 71 12|          very goodness whereby you are good to the righteous and
 72 13|             although other spirits are uncircumscribed and eternal. --
 73 13|         time contains you; but you are everywhere and always. And
 74 13|            of you alone, you alone are uncircumscribed and eternal.
 75 13|            that other spirits also are said to be uncircumscribed
 76 13|         and eternal?~Assuredly you are alone eternal; for you alone
 77 13|           not begin to be.~But how are you alone uncircumscribed?
 78 13|     members. Therefore, you, Lord, are peculiarly uncircumscribed
 79 13|         and yet other spirits also are uncircumscribed and eternal.~ ~
 80 14|            has not seen you as you are? Lord my God, my creator
 81 14|        desire of my soul, what you are other than it has seen,
 82 15|             THEREFORE, O Lord, you are not only that than which
 83 15|       cannot be conceived, but you are a being greater than can
 84 15|            is such a being, if you are not this very being, a greater
 85 16|         and blessed truth, how far are you from me, who am so near
 86 16|            to you! How far removed are you from my vision, though
 87 16|           to yours! Everywhere you are wholly present, and I see
 88 16|            cannot come to you. You are within me, and about me,
 89 17|       ineffable manner. ~STILL you are hidden, O Lord, from my
 90 18|            wisdom, eternity, etc., are not parts, but one, and
 91 18|           toward you, O Lord. What are you, Lord, what are you?
 92 18|           What are you, Lord, what are you? What shall my heart
 93 18|           you to be?~Assuredly you are life, you are wisdom, you
 94 18|        Assuredly you are life, you are wisdom, you are truth, you
 95 18|          life, you are wisdom, you are truth, you are goodness,
 96 18|         wisdom, you are truth, you are goodness, you are blessedness,
 97 18|       truth, you are goodness, you are blessedness, you are eternity,
 98 18|           you are blessedness, you are eternity, and you are every
 99 18|          you are eternity, and you are every true good. Many are
100 18|          are every true good. Many are these attributes: my straitened
101 18|           once. How, then, O Lord, are you all these things? Are
102 18|          are you all these things? Are they parts of you, or is
103 18|        rather the whole, which you are? For, whatever is composed
104 18|      dissolution. But these things are alien to you, than whom
105 18|         conceived of. Hence, there are no parts in you, Lord, nor
106 18|            parts in you, Lord, nor are you more than one. But you
107 18|         you more than one. But you are so truly a unitary being,
108 18|       yourself, that in no respect are you unlike yourself; rather
109 18|        unlike yourself; rather you are unity itself, indivisible
110 18|            and wisdom and the rest are not parts of you, but all
111 18|          not parts of you, but all are one; and each of these is
112 18|            is the whole, which you are, and which all the rest
113 18|             and which all the rest are.~In this way, then, it appears
114 18|           your eternity, which you are, is nowhere and never a
115 18|       eternity. But everywhere you are as a whole, and your eternity
116 19|        eternity you have been, and are, and will be; and to have
117 19|           to-day and to-morrow you are; or, rather, neither yesterday
118 19|           to-day nor to-morrow you are; but simply, you are, outside
119 19|           you are; but simply, you are, outside all time. For yesterday
120 20|            embrace all things. You are before all, and do transcend
121 20|         all. And, of a surety, you are before all; for before they
122 20|         before they were made, you are. But how do you transcend
123 20|         all without you; while you are in no wise less, if they
124 20|          transcend them, since you are ever present with yourself,
125 21|         time themselves. And these are indeed an age, because of
126 21| immeasurability. And, although you are so great, O Lord, that all
127 21|            O Lord, that all things are full of you, and exist in
128 21|          and exist in you; yet you are so without all space, that
129 22|      THEREFORE, you alone, O Lord, are what you are; and you are
130 22|        alone, O Lord, are what you are; and you are he who you
131 22|          are what you are; and you are he who you are. For, what
132 22|             and you are he who you are. For, what is one thing
133 22|          absolutely exist.~But you are what you are, because, whatever
134 22|        exist.~But you are what you are, because, whatever you are
135 22|         are, because, whatever you are at any time, or in any way,
136 22|           time, or in any way, you are as a whole and forever.
137 22|         whole and forever. And you are he who you are, properly
138 22|             And you are he who you are, properly and simply; for
139 22|         time non-existent. But you are life, and light, and wisdom,
140 22|           this nature. And yet you are only one supreme good; you
141 22|         only one supreme good; you are all-sufficient to yourself,
142 22|             and need none; and you are he whom all things need
143 23|          degree in which what they are is good. Of supreme simplicity
144 23|            proceeds.~THIS good you are, you, God the Father; this
145 23|       nothing, other than what you are, or greater or less than
146 23|           the Word is true, as you are truthful. And, hence, it
147 23|          truth itself, just as you are; no other truth than you;
148 23|            truth than you; and you are of so simple a nature, that
149 23|           born other than what you are. This very good is the one
150 24|           For, if individual goods are delectable, conceive in
151 24|         nothing! Finally, if there are many great delights in delectable
152 25|         Love the one good in which are all goods, and it suffices.
153 26|         and soul, and all the man, are full of that joy, joy beyond
154 26|         into your joy, O Lord, who are the Three and the One God,