PHIL. IUD. ON THE HEIR OF DIVINE THINGS §. 14. 15.

In the same way that you have departed from the others, depart and migrate also from yourself. And what is this? Do not hoard thinking, reasoning, and grasping for yourself; but bearing these also, dedicate them to the cause that thinks accurately and grasps without being deceived.

§. 15. The holiest of the all-sacred shrines receives the dedication. For it seems that two things exist: the intelligible and the sensible. This world is the storehouse of sensible natures, but the intelligible world is truly the storehouse of the invisible. And that he who has departed from us and is eager to be a follower of God is an heir of the celebrated wealth of nature, he who says it testifies: "He led him outside, and said, look up to the heaven," original: "Ἐξήγαγεν αὐτὸν ἔξω, καὶ εἶπεν, ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν," (Gen. 15:5) because this is the treasury of divine goods. "To open for you," he says, "the Lord, his treasury of goods," original: "Ἀνοῖξαί σοι," φησὶ, "κύριος τὸν θησαυρὸν αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀγαθῶν," (Deut. 28:12) the heaven; from which the Giver continuously rains the most perfect joys. Look up, as a refutation of the blind race of common men, which, seeming to see, has been blinded. For how is it not blinded, when it sees evils instead of goods, unjust things instead of just ones, and passions instead of well-being, and mortal things instead of immortal; and flees from mentors and correctors, and furthermore from refutation and discipline, while accepting flatterers and those words that lead to the pleasure of idleness, ignorance, and luxury? Only the excellent man sees, for which reason the ancients named the prophets "seers." original: "ὁρῶντας." (1 Sam. 9:9) He who has gone outside is not only called a seer, but also one who sees God, Israel, which is "seeing God." But others, even if they ever open their eyes, have looked down toward the earth, meddling with earthly things.

) Gen. 15, 5. — ) Deut. 28, 12. — ) 1 Sam. (1 Reg.) 9, 9.