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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 3,31-36.
”The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of earthly things. But the one who comes from heaven (is above all). He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does accept his testimony certifies that God is trustworthy. For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God. He does not ration his gift of the Spirit. The Father loves the Son and has given everything over to him. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.”
Saint Augustine (354-430), bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and doctor of the
Church
The Confessions, IX, 10
”So we were saying: If for anyone the tempest of the flesh should grow still,
the fantasies of the earth, the waters and the air be quieted, along with the
axis of the skies, if the very soul should fall silent and transcend itself by
forgetting itself with its dreams, imaginary insights, and speech, and all else
taking form from the transient (for they all say to him who has ears: We made
not ourselves but he who abides eternally made us), if all these, at such
words, could fall silent, because they are straining their ear to their
creator, and if he should speak alone, not through them, but by himself and
audibly, not by human speech nor voice of angels, the sound of thunder nor
obscure similitude, so that we should hear only him whom in such matters we
love (in such fashion as we were straining and in swift thought touching the
eternal wisdom in all things immanent) if this state could go on, leached
utterly of all alien conceptions, and if this one rapture could seize, absorb,
and so envelop its beholder in more inward joys, so that eternal life should be
quite like that moment of understanding to which we aspired, would not this be:
“Enter into the joy of your Lord?””.
