Unit 2 rem early

The events signify also the one who made them, whom both pure and impure, wise and foolish, approach toward the soul’s health. The wax seems to me to hold the account of those things, while the remaining honey is a symbol of their contemplation. The wax will pass away, for heaven and earth will pass away, but the honey will not pass away, nor will the words of our Savior Jesus Christ pass away. Concerning which Solomon says: Honeycomb, good words; their sweetness is healing of the soul. And David says: Your words are sweeter to my throat than honey to my mouth. The result of the labor of the virtues and knowledge, he called labor. But kings and commoners, not those wearing a diadem or the poor in dung, he means those who have their mind toward God refined and strengthened by virtues, these he calls kings.

This sleep happens only to a rational soul, for it signifies here ignorance and lack of knowledge. Of which wakefulness produces something like a solitary sparrow on a roof. We must beware lest through such bodily movements the opponents come to know their own reasonings moving within us, since we have believed only God to be a discerner of hearts. Everyone who eats the flesh of Christ and drinks his blood acquires righteous blood. But a rational soul deprived of this blood is said to die. For the soul that sins, that one shall die. But if there is righteous blood, then certainly there is also unjust blood. Which those who eat the food given to the Ethiopians and nourished by the bread of falsehood gather within themselves. And those who sacrifice to other gods consume their own righteous blood. But those who offer sacrifice to the one God, they corrupt their unjust blood. Corruption will follow the unjust blood, but this must now happen from the beginning, not thus, for health of children is not by corruption of disease, nor are those born with health from the beginning. By slandering falsehood to each other, they bring themselves into discernments and lawsuits.

Or brothers are those who have the grace of adoption and are under the same father Christ. Whom the witness of injustice tries to divide, throwing disturbances and judgments among them. And 'he kindles,' as I think, is added because of the passionate reasonings, kindling anger indeed, and toward wrath and hatred desire toward shameful works. These reasonings the holy Paul also called burning arrows of the evil one, piercing the soul and working death. He commands to bring forward the mother, which is wisdom generating according to God. And yet it was necessary to say the father, for this one is more disposed toward agreeing with the son. But since it is not possible to know God before the theory of the events, therefore he commands to bring forward the mother and not the father, so that through the mother the son may see the father. For if she does not generate, he does not see the light, which is knowledge of him, God. That the commandment of the law is a lamp and light. And perhaps the lamp, the Old Covenant is that. For he was the lamp burning and shining. Light, the New Covenant. For I say, I am the light of the world. Conviction indeed of evils, education moreover of goods. For through the law comes knowledge of sin. For such is the pleasure of wickedness, as much as and one loaf.

If he is caught by true knowledge, he will renounce all false knowledge. The former thief, from lack of knowledge, from the senselessness caused by our Savior’s knowledge and wisdom. He is said to restore sevenfold, to praise God seven times a day. And giving all his sensible things to God, he will deliver himself from the things prepared by the devil and his angels for punishment. Everyone who shares in wickedness is an adulterer of the devil who first married wickedness, and having been a murderer from the beginning, and with him he brings about destruction of his own soul. Our sister wisdom is, because the Maker of the incorporeal nature Father, and he has made her. But wisdom here he speaks of not the Son of God, but the contemplation of bodies and incorporeals, and the judgment and forethought existing within her. He now calls the flesh of a human a door, for through it the evil one works deceits upon humans, to those wishing to walk the broad and spacious road, and leading away to destruction.