glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I shall be satisfied when your glory shall appear "Wonderful in justice. For great and wonderful is the holiness and justice of the saints in this life: who in the flesh and the world do not live carnally or worldly, but spiritually and divinely according to the perfect doctrine of Christ, which in every way is exceedingly just and marvelous, and which makes its followers wonderful. Second, this verse can be explained regarding the Church triumphant. We shall be filled with the good things of this house, that is, in the blessedness of the heavenly homeland. For with the essential beatitude, which is the vision of God, all the blessed will be filled, because they will see God clearly as they desired. Also they will be filled with great accidental rewards after the day of judgment, when their holy souls will be united with their glorified bodies, and they will be made happy not only in intellectual virtues, but also in their sensitive powers. Whence Isaiah says: The eye has not seen, O God, besides you, what things you have prepared for them that wait for you. The Apostle [Paul] has made this more clear in saying: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, what things God has prepared for them that love him (1 Cor. 2:9). Of this [subject matter] also earlies Psalms set forth: You shall fill me with joy with your countenance; and, I shall be satisfied when your glory shall appear (Ps.16:15b). Holy is your temple, that is, the Church triumphant. For no imperfection of strain will be able to exist in the heavenly homeland where shall all the blessed will be immediately joined to the fountain of purity. Wonderful in justice. And however much all our justices in our wayfaring state are as the rags of a menstruous woman (Isa.65:6a), yet the justice of the blessed in the heavenly homeland will be perfect and wonderful: because whatever they receive from God, he will offer to them most fully, and they will unceasingly and completely stand attentive to God, turned toward him, immersed in him, and absorbed in him." pg. 261,262 Denis The Carthusian commentary on Psalm 65 verse 6. 10:28 a.m. - 2022-10-20 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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