Quaestio illustris: an'ne renati de sua ipsorum et de aliorum Piorum aeterna electione, certo pronunciare, & per fidem, in Domino, de eadem gloriari debeant

your oil of gladness above your companions. Psalm 45.7. Therefore, Ambrose, looking toward the author of spiritual gifts, says: The oil of gladness, therefore, is the Holy Spirit. And he beautifully called it the oil of gladness, lest you might think it a created thing. For the nature of this kind of oil is such that it in no way mixes with the nature of any other liquid. Moreover, gladness does not anoint the body, but illuminates the inner parts of the heart, just as the Prophet said: You have given gladness in my heart. Therefore, since he wastes his effort who wishes to mix oil with a more liquid creature, because since oil is by nature lighter than others, it is separated and lifted above the rest. How do these most wretched hucksters think they can fraudulently mix the oil of gladness with other creatures, when surely corporeal things cannot be mixed with incorporeal, nor created with uncreated? So he says.

We must remember that the oil of the Gospel should not be mixed with the water of Philosophia Philosophy, much less with the muddy liquid of heresies; and we must be most loving of sincerity, ἀδιαφθορίας incorruptibility, and truth in all heavenly doctrine. And since there is no share for the faithful with the infidel, let us be strangers through our whole life not only to the commerce of such people but also to the unfruitful works of darkness.

If at any time, O noble Count STANISLAUS, you hear the servants of God complaining of the bites of sycophants,