約伯倫理 第 1421 章

46. Christ admits among the strong and perfect also the weak and humble to the lot of the heavenly inheritance. — These daughters therefore are commemorated as beautiful from the merit of the perfect; they also, as it were from the type of the imperfect, receive the inheritance among the brethren as the weak. For the custom of the old life did not allow that women should obtain an inheritance among the males, because the severity of the Law, choosing the strong and despising the weak, was zealous to sanction things strict rather than kind. But now that our merciful Redeemer has come, let no one conscious of his own weakness despair of obtaining the inheritance of the heavenly patrimony.

For our Father grants the rights of succession to the women also among the males, because among the strong and perfect He admits the weak and humble to the lot of the heavenly inheritance. Whence the Truth itself says in the Gospel: 'In my Father's house are many mansions' (John 14:2). For with the Father there are many mansions, because in that life of blessedness each one receives a place unequal according to unequal merit, yet feels not the loss of that same inequality, because as much as he has received suffices for him.

The sisters therefore come with the brothers to the inheritance, because the weak are admitted thither with the strong, so that if anyone through imperfection shall not be highest, yet through humility he may not be a stranger to the lot of the inheritance. Which mansions, distributed to each according to merits, Paul well intimates when he says: 'There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. For one star differeth from another star in glory' (1 Cor. 15:41). There follows: