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V ers. 21. — Verbosi amici met, ad Deum stillat oculus meus. 29. Non ab hominibus quaerendum testimonium. — Quid enim per oculum nisi cordis intentio designa- tur? sicut scriptum est: Si fuerit oculus tuus sim- plex, totum corpus tuum lucidum erit ( Matth. vi, 22). Quia cum bona intentione quid agitur, ejus intentio- nis actio apud Deum minime fuscatur. Cum ergo verbosi amici sunt, id est cum et ipsi derogant qui in fide sociantur, ad Deum necesse est ut oculus stil- let, quatenus nostra intentio tota in amoris intimi compunctione defluat, et tanto subi(??)lius se ad inte- riora erigat, quanto et per exteriora opprobria re- pulsa intus redire cogitur, ne foras evanescat. Se- quitur(??)
Ver. 21.—'My friends are full of words; my eye droppeth unto God.' 29. Testimony is not to be sought from men.—For what is designated by the eye but the intention of the heart? as it is written: 'If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light' (Matt. vi, 22). Because when anything is done with a good intention, the action of that intention is in no way darkened before God. When therefore friends are full of words—that is, when even those who are joined in faith disparage us—it is necessary that the eye drop unto God, so that our whole intention may flow down into the compunction of inward love, and so much the more subtly raise itself toward inward things, the more it is compelled, being repelled by outward reproaches, to return within, lest it vanish outwardly. There follows:
第二十一節——「我的朋友滿口言語；我的眼向神滴淚。」二十九、不當向人尋求見證。——因為眼所表示的是什麼，若非心的意向？正如經上所記：「你的眼睛若純一，你全身就光明」（馬太福音六22）。因為當人以善意行事時，那意向的行為在神面前絕不被遮暗。所以當朋友滿口言語——即當連那在信德中相聯的人也貶損我們——之時，眼便必須向神滴淚，好使我們全部的意向都流入內在之愛的痛悔，並且它越因外在的辱罵被逐回內裡、免得向外消散，就越精微地把自己提升向內在的事物。接著說：