I further read, Be angry, and sin not. And how was I moved, O my
God, who had now learned to be angry at myself for things past, that I
might not sin in time to come! Yea, to be justly angry; for that it
was not another nature of a people of darkness which sinned for me, as
they say who are not angry at themselves, and treasure up wrath
against the day of wrath, and of the revelation of Thy just
judgment. Nor were my good things now without, nor sought with the
eyes of flesh in that earthly sun; for they that would have joy from
without soon become vain, and waste themselves on the things seen
and temporal, and in their famished thoughts do lick their very
shadows. Oh that they were wearied out with their famine, and said,
Who will show us good things? And we would say, and they hear, The
light of Thy countenance is sealed upon us. For we are not that
light which enlighteneth every man, but we are enlightened by Thee;
that having been sometimes darkness, we may be light in Thee. Oh
that they could see the eternal Internal, which having tasted, I was
grieved that I could not show It them, so long as they brought me
their heart in their eyes roving abroad from Thee, while they said,
Who will show us good things? For there, where I was angry within
myself in my chamber, where I was inwardly pricked, where I had
sacrificed, slaying my old man and commencing the purpose of a new
life, putting my trust in Thee,- there hadst Thou begun to grow
sweet unto me, and hadst put gladness in my heart.
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