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| He Begs of God that He May Live in the True Light, and May Be Instructed as to the Mysteries of the Sacred Books.
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Chapter X.—He Begs of God that He
May Live in the True Light, and May Be Instructed as to the
Mysteries of the Sacred Books.
10. Oh, let Truth, the light of my heart,1087
| 1087 See note 2, p. 76, above. | not my own
darkness, speak unto me! I have descended to that, and am darkened.
But thence, even thence, did I love Thee. I went astray, and
remembered Thee. I heard Thy voice behind me bidding me return, and
scarcely did I hear it for the tumults of the unquiet ones. And
now, behold, I return burning and panting after Thy fountain. Let
no one prohibit me; of this will I drink, and so have life. Let me
not be my own life; from myself have I badly lived,—death was I
unto myself; in Thee do I revive. Do Thou speak unto me; do Thou
discourse unto me. In Thy books have I believed, and their words
are very deep.1088
| 1088 As Gregory the Great has it, Revelation is a river
broad and deep, “In quo et agnus ambulet, et elephas natet.”
And these deep things of God are to be learned only by patient
searching. We must, says St. Chrysostom (De Prec. serm.
ii.), dive down into the sea as those who would fetch up pearls
from its depths. The very mysteriousness of Scripture is,
doubtless, intended by God to stimulate us to search the
Scriptures, and to strengthen our spiritual insight (Enar. in
Ps. cxlvi. 6). See also, p. 48, note 5; p. 164, note 2, above;
and the notes on pp. 370, 371, below. |
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