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  Cause my conceptions all to be explicit!〃

And I continued: 〃As the truthful pen;
  Father; of thy dear brother wrote of it;
  Who put with thee Rome into the good way;

Faith is the substance of the things we hope for;
  And evidence of those that are not seen;
  And this appears to me its quiddity。〃

Then heard I: 〃Very rightly thou perceivest;
  If well thou understandest why he placed it
  With substances and then with evidences。〃

And I thereafterward: 〃The things profound;
  That here vouchsafe to me their apparition;
  Unto all eyes below are so concealed;

That they exist there only in belief;
  Upon the which is founded the high hope;
  And hence it takes the nature of a substance。

And it behoveth us from this belief
  To reason without having other sight;
  And hence it has the nature of evidence。〃

Then heard I: 〃If whatever is acquired
  Below by doctrine were thus understood;
  No sophist's subtlety would there find place。〃

Thus was breathed forth from that enkindled love;
  Then added: 〃Very well has been gone over
  Already of this coin the alloy and weight;

But tell me if thou hast it in thy purse?〃
  And I: 〃Yes; both so shining and so round
  That in its stamp there is no peradventure。〃

Thereafter issued from the light profound
  That there resplendent was: 〃This precious jewel;
  Upon the which is every virtue founded;

Whence hadst thou it?〃  And I: 〃The large outpouring
  Of Holy Spirit; which has been diffused
  Upon the ancient parchments and the new;

A syllogism is; which proved it to me
  With such acuteness; that; compared therewith;
  All demonstration seems to me obtuse。〃

And then I heard: 〃The ancient and the new
  Postulates; that to thee are so conclusive;
  Why dost thou take them for the word divine?〃

And I: 〃The proofs; which show the truth to me;
  Are the works subsequent; whereunto Nature
  Ne'er heated iron yet; nor anvil beat。〃

'Twas answered me: 〃Say; who assureth thee
  That those works ever were? the thing itself
  That must be proved; nought else to thee affirms it。〃

〃Were the world to Christianity converted;〃
  I said; 〃withouten miracles; this one
  Is such; the rest are not its hundredth part;

Because that poor and fasting thou didst enter
  Into the field to sow there the good plant;
  Which was a vine and has become a thorn!〃

This being finished; the high; holy Court
  Resounded through the spheres; 〃One God we praise!〃
  In melody that there above is chanted。

And then that Baron; who from branch to branch;
  Examining; had thus conducted me;
  Till the extremest leaves we were approaching;

Again began: 〃The Grace that dallying
  Plays with thine intellect thy mouth has opened;
  Up to this point; as it should opened be;

So that I do approve what forth emerged;
  But now thou must express what thou believest;
  And whence to thy belief it was presented。〃

〃O holy father; spirit who beholdest
  What thou believedst so that thou o'ercamest;
  Towards the sepulchre; more youthful feet;〃

Began I; 〃thou dost wish me in this place
  The form to manifest of my prompt belief;
  And likewise thou the cause thereof demandest。

And I respond: In one God I believe;
  Sole and eterne; who moveth all the heavens
  With love and with desire; himself unmoved;

And of such faith not only have I proofs
  Physical and metaphysical; but gives them
  Likewise the truth that from this place rains down

Through Moses; through the Prophets and the Psalms;
  Through the Evangel; and through you; who wrote
  After the fiery Spirit sanctified you;

In Persons three eterne believe; and these
  One essence I believe; so one and trine
  They bear conjunction both with 'sunt' and 'est。'

With the profound condition and divine
  Which now I touch upon; doth stamp my mind
  Ofttimes the doctrine evangelical。

This the beginning is; this is the spark
  Which afterwards dilates to vivid flame;
  And; like a star in heaven; is sparkling in me。〃

Even as a lord who hears what pleaseth him
  His servant straight embraces; gratulating
  For the good news as soon as he is silent;

So; giving me its benediction; singing;
  Three times encircled me; when I was silent;
  The apostolic light; at whose command

I spoken had; in speaking I so pleased him。



Paradiso: Canto XXV


If e'er it happen that the Poem Sacred;
  To which both heaven and earth have set their hand;
  So that it many a year hath made me lean;

O'ercome the cruelty that bars me out
  From the fair sheepfold; where a lamb I slumbered;
  An enemy to the wolves that war upon it;

With other voice forthwith; with other fleece
  Poet will I return; and at my font
  Baptismal will I take the laurel crown;

Because into the Faith that maketh known
  All souls to God there entered I; and then
  Peter for her sake thus my brow encircled。

Thereafterward towards us moved a light
  Out of that band whence issued the first…fruits
  Which of his vicars Christ behind him left;

And then my Lady; full of ecstasy;
  Said unto me: 〃Look; look! behold the Baron
  For whom below Galicia is frequented。〃

In the same way as; when a dove alights
  Near his companion; both of them pour forth;
  Circling about and murmuring; their affection;

So one beheld I by the other grand
  Prince glorified to be with welcome greeted;
  Lauding the food that there above is eaten。

But when their gratulations were complete;
  Silently 'coram me' each one stood still;
  So incandescent it o'ercame my sight。

Smiling thereafterwards; said Beatrice:
  〃Illustrious life; by whom the benefactions
  Of our Basilica have been described;

Make Hope resound within this altitude;
  Thou knowest as oft thou dost personify it
  As Jesus to the three gave greater clearness。〃

〃Lift up thy head; and make thyself assured;
  For what comes hither from the mortal world
  Must needs be ripened in our radiance。〃

This comfort came to me from the second fire;
  Wherefore mine eyes I lifted to the hills;
  Which bent them down before with too great weight。

〃Since; through his grace; our Emperor wills that thou
  Shouldst find thee face to face; before thy death;
  In the most secret chamber; with his Counts;

So that; the truth beholden of this court;
  Hope; which below there rightfully enamours;
  Thereby thou strengthen in thyself and others;

Say what it is; and how is flowering with it
  Thy mind; and say from whence it came to thee。〃
  Thus did the second light again continue。

And the Compassionate; who piloted
  The plumage of my wings in such high flight;
  Did in reply anticipate me thus:

〃No child whatever the Church Militant
  Of greater hope possesses; as is written
  In that Sun which irradiates all our band;

Therefore it is conceded him from Egypt
  To come into Jerusalem to see;
  Or ever yet his warfare be completed。

The two remaining points; that not for knowledge
  Have been demanded; but that he report
  How much this virtue unto thee is pleasing;

To him I leave; for hard he will not find them;
  Nor of self…praise; and let him answer them;
  And may the grace of God in this assist him!〃

As a disciple; who his teacher follows;
  Ready and willing; where he is expert;
  That his proficiency may be displayed;

〃Hope;〃 said I; 〃is the certain expectation
  Of future glory; which is the effect
  Of grace divine and merit precedent。

From many stars this light comes unto me;
  But he instilled it first into my heart
  Who was chief singer unto the chief captain。

'Sperent in te;' in the high Theody
  He sayeth; 'those who know thy name;' and who
  Knoweth it not; if he my faith possess?

Thou didst instil me; then; with his instilling
  In the Epistle; so that I am full;
  And upon others rain again your rain。〃

While I was speaking; in the living bosom
  Of that combustion quivered an effulgence;
  Sudden and frequent; in the guise of lightning;

Then breathed: 〃The love wherewith I am inflamed
  Towards the virtue still which followed me
  Unto the palm and issue of the field;

Wills that I breathe to thee that thou delight
  In her; and

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