On Construction
XXXIX. On Construction
1. God constructed everything that exists
within the human nature He assumed,
in order that <His> work might be of greater worth.
2. Since the purpose (lit. “end”) constitutes the foundation
of the middle and of the beginning,
a very great building pertains thereto.
3. Upon the reason (lit. “end”) whereby God is honoured
and whereby He has been hominified,
has He built a deified man.[1]
4. This man is called Christ
and within Himself has He erected
the fact that everyone shall be saved.
5. Whoever fails to love or understand Christ
knows little about great building<s>,
nor do his foundations sit upon great faith.
6. God has erected faith upon truth,
by means of goodness, greatness, wisdom and will,
<so that we may> believe Him <to be a> Trinity and <to be> incarnated.
7. Upon the human intellect has God built
free understanding by means of necessary arguments
in order to eradicate the error in which the unbelievers remain.
8. Within <His> goodness God has built and constructed
the bonifier, bonifying and the bonified,
so that by means of <such goodness> the good may be rendered operational.
9. Nobody can build anything good
upon unvirtuous love, or deceit or lies,
for the reason that the good cannot be separated from goodness.
10. Whoever wishes to build virtuous love,
virtuous understanding and virtuous memory,
must not commit evil deeds but must seek to act virtuously.
[1] Cf. n. 1, Ch. XXX, § 1.