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 human mind,  whose  powers  of  understanding  do  not transcend even  the  nature  of  a  fly! When a  heretic named Eunomius  boasted  of  having  penetrated  with his mind's  eye  the  divine  essence,  St.  Basil,  to  show the absurdity  of  his  contention,  sent  him  twenty-five questions on  insect  life,  not  one  of  which  he  was  able to answer. For God,  to  be  God,  is  necessarily  incomprehensible, but  a  truth  for  which  we  have  His  word, is just  as  necessarily  infallible.

Finally, the  sensual  have  no  time  or  appetite  for the Lord's  Supper. " I  have  married  a  wife,"  says such a  one,  "  and  therefore  I  cannot  come." These are they  who  live  according  to  the  flesh,  whose  highest dream  of  happiness  is  carnal  pleasure,  who  so  receive even  holy  matrimony  as  to  shut  out  God  from their minds,  and  to  give  themselves  to  their  lust  as the  horse  or  the  mule. These are  they  over  whom the devil  prevails,  and  who  reject  the  proffered  invitation because  its  acceptance  would  run  counter  to their  vices. " Amen,  I  say  to  you,"  saith  the  Lord, " that  none  of  these  men,  these  proud  and  worldly  or self-wise  or  carnal  men,  that  were  called  shall  taste of  My  supper." For, sooner  or  later  they  will  knock at the  Lord's  door  and  beg  to  be  admitted  to  His nuptial feast,  but  He  will  answer:  "Amen,  I  know you  not.  All  through  your  day  of  life  I  held  out  My hands  to  you  while  you  disbelieved  and  contradicted Me,  and  now  I  pray  you  hold  Me  excused." Then will He  send  His  servants,  His  angels,  into  the  highways and  byways,  to  the  neglected  and  the  blamelessly ignorant,  and  many  shall  come  from  the  east