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107-116

  • For affliction (sent) by the Friend is (the means of) your being purified: His knowledge is above your contrivance.
  • The affliction becomes sweet (to the sufferer) when he sees happiness: the medicine becomes sweet (to the sick man) when he regards health.
  • He sees victory for himself in the very essence of checkmate; therefore he says, “Kill me, O trusty ones!”
  • This policeman became a (source of) profit in respect of another, but he became reprobate in respect of himself. 110
  • The mercy appertaining to the Faith was cut off from him; the hate inherent in the Devil enfolded him.
  • He became a factory of anger and hatred: know that hate is the root of error and infidelity.
  • How they asked Jesus, on whom be peace, saying, "O Spirit of God, what is the hardest thing to bear of all the hard things in existence?"
  • A sober-minded man said to Jesus, “What is the hardest to bear of all things in existence?”
  • He replied, “O (my dear) soul, the hardest is God's anger, on account of which Hell is trembling as we (are).”
  • He said, “What is the security against this anger of God?” Jesus said, “To abandon thine own anger at once.” 115
  • Therefore, as the policeman became this anger's mine (source), his ugly anger surpassed even (that of) a wild beast.