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 concord, who, driving away the mist, enlightens his creation, heals its wounds, and overthrows its enemies. But I entreat thee, man of God, make me again to behold and see him who is now hidden from me, that I may hear also his voice, whose wonderfulness I cannot express. For it is not of the nature of this bodily organ."

35. And the apostle answered and said to him, "If thou hast released thyself from those things, whose nature, as thou hast said, thou hast known and knowest, who he is who has wrought these things in thee, and hast learned and become a follower of him after whom thou now longest through thy ardent love, thou shalt see him and be with him for ever in his repose and in his joy. But if thou art rather carelessly disposed toward him, and again returnest to thy former deeds, and lettest go that beauty and that beaming countenance which has now been displayed in thee, and if the splendor of his light, after which thou now longest, is entirely hidden from thee, thou shalt be deprived not only of this life, but also of the future, and thou shalt go to him of whom thou didst say that thou hast destroyed him, and thou shalt see him no more whom thou hast said thou hast found."

36. And when the apostle had said this, he went to the city, holding the young man by the hand, and saying "What thou hast seen, child, is only a little of the many things which God has. For not concerning these visible things preaches