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God's children run to their kind Father for different reasons: the age-old serpent slides round our throats, begins to squeeze tight, and we? we believe we are safe in a father's tender care. So too when we crave and place the deepest trust in the noble pleasures of Paradise we've been promised, faith turns us from unreal shadows, wakens the heart, and our feet seek a brightly-lit path. But He doesn't gather fear and desire to Him, such motives remain unanswered. only those who watch Him on the cross as He wins out over the serpent, embrace His look and pain, and all that's meant by God. |
An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition |
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Notes: From V CXLII:302. See also B S1:168:169; MS Ve2; Valgrisi 169. Key |
