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For although the Divine mercy has made me experience this by a particular favor, nevertheless the obstinacy of my sins, and the thick covering of negligence with which I am encompassed, hinders me from fully understanding it. For if all the science of men and Angels were united together, it would not be capable of making us understand, even in the least degree, the sublime majesty of so high a subject.

O thrice blessed, thrice happy, and, if I may so speak, a hundred times holy, is he who allows himself to be guided by this grace, and who, having clean hands, and a pure heart, and spotless lips, merits to be thus united to and incorporated with his God! What does he not see and hear and feel and taste? How can my stammering tongue speak of it?

O eternal solstice! Secure mansion, containing all that is desirable! Paradise of unchanging delights, continual fountain of inestimable pleasures, wherein there is eternal spring-time, soothing by its sweet song, or rather by its delicious and intellectual melodies, rejoicing by the odor of its vivifying perfumes, inebriating by the soothing sweetness of its mystic liquors, and transforming by its secret caresses!

Erit? Borde vara grekiska utifrån sammanhanget, men hittar bara en latinsk versättning som inte är rimlig.

let the abyss of uncreated wisdom invoke the abyss of omnipotent power to praise and extol the amazing charity which, by an excess of infinite mercy, o most sweet god of my life and only love of my soul, hast led thee through a desert pathless and dry land - that is, through the many obstacles I have placed to thy mercy - to descend into the valley of my miseries.