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 *tiones tuas in æternum, propter retributionem." (I have inclined my heart to do Thy justifications for ever, because of the reward.) Interiorly, I hasten to say: "O my Jesus, Thou knowest well that it is not for the reward I serve Thee, but solely because I love Thee, and for the sake of saving souls.

In Heaven only shall we see the absolute truth concerning all things. On earth, even in the Holy Scripture, there is a certain obscurity: it grieves me to see differences in the translations; had I been a Priest I would have learned Hebrew, so that I might be able to read the Word of God in that human language in which He deigned to express it.

We are not yet in our Fatherland, and temptation must purify us as gold is purified by the action of fire.