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God's miraculous tenderness towards us when He made that harsh death on the bitter cross goes beyond what by thinking it out we can interpret, make sense of, or grasp; but if a force outside nature, faith, from God, illuminates the mortal heart and dwells therein inherently we take in the beautiful mystery completely. Those who fasten their eyes only on Christ, not the best minds, those who read the most books, they will know bliss in God's elysium. God's law isn't written on paper, but formed and hewn by Jesus' burning chisel, love's fire in the purged awakened heart. |
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Notes: From V LXXXI:241. See also B S1:78:124; MS V2; Valgrisi 79. A fifteenth sonnet in a series meditating Christ. Valdesian. See Valdés, Juan de. Lo Evangelio di San Matteo a cura e con introduzione storica di Carlo Ossola. Testo criticio di Anna Maria Cavallarin. Roma: Bolzoni, 1985. Contains interpretations of Vittora's poetry in the light of Valés commentary. Key |
