On Health
XLVIII. On Health
1. Through <His> compassion,
<His> forgiveness and <His> charity
does God heal the man made sick by sin.
2. Let he who wishes to heal himself,
serve and love God
and avoid becoming too idle.
3. Man can heal an ailing love
by means of good understanding and good remembering
and must seek to render such <love> to God.
4. Whoever suffers from an ailing intellect
should apply it to worthy thoughts,
if he wishes to be healed.
5. He who wishes to heal an ailing memory
can easily do so
by means of virtuous understanding and virtuous loving.
6. A spiritual remedy
befits an intellectual ailment
and a sensuous one a bodily such.
7. By means of greater goodness does a man recover
from greater ills (i.e. ailments, spiritual and physical), because power
exercises greater good<ness> over sins.
8. I am made sick by love
when I consider the great dishonour
that mankind does to our Lord.
9. Jerusalem and its environs
are ailing, because the place
where Jesus was born has been forgotten.
10. A man recovers from contrariety
once he is able to lend concordance to all the virtues
and to mix one good with another.