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Christi, de longe portans panem suum, scilicet nobis. Panem Angelorum manducavit homo 1.
12. Commendatur etiam a fortitudine, ibi, Proverb. XXXI, 19: Manum suam misit ad fortia. Fortia dicit perfecta opera, ut est diligere inimicos, benefacere odientibus, et orare pro persequentibus nos 2.
13. Commendatur etiam a largitate, ibi, Proverb. XXXI, 20: Manum suam aperuit inopi, et palmas suas extendit ad pauperem. Tanta enim ejus fuit largitas, ut se totam aperiret per largitatem. Aperuit uterum Filio, oculos pro peccatoribus ad flendum, aures ad preces eorum audiendum, et os ad placandum. Unde subditur, v. 26: Os suum aperuit sapientiae, et lex clementiae in lingua ejus. Glossa: "Ut non statim puniat, ut lex Moysi, sed semper misericorditer parcat."
14. Commendatur etiam a summa beatitudine, ibi, Proverb. XXXI, 28: Surrexerunt filii ejus, et beatissimam praedicaverunt. Praedicaverunt eam beatam in natura, beatiorem in gratia, beatissimam in gloria. Vel, praedicaverunt eam beatam super omnes conjugatas, beatiorem super omnes viduas, beatissimam super omnes virgines. Vel, praedicaverunt eam beatam in conversione peccatorum, beatiorem in conversione justorum, beatissimam in coronatione electorum.
15. Commendatur etiam in divitiarum immensitate, ut ibi, Proverb. XXXI, 29: Multae filiae congregaverunt divitias, id est, omnes animae beatae particulariter, difficulter, exiliter. Tu vero, quae Dei mater es, supergressa es universas, in multiplicitate, in pretiositate, et gratiarum omnium immensitate.
LIBER ECCLESIASTAE.
Verba Ecclesiastae, filii David, regis Jerusalem 3.
1. Imperatrix Virgo Maria commendatur a Salomone, a suae nativitatis utilitate, et assumptionis suae gloriositate. Ecclesiastae, I, 5: Oritur sol, et occidit, et ad locum suum revertitur. Sol iste est Virgo Maria, qui ortus est toti Ecclesiae, quando nata fuit. Sciendum autem, quod in genealogia nata fuisse narratur a bonis, et a malis. Quod a bonis nata fuit, triplex potest esse ratio. Prima, ut nobilitatis antiquitas ipsam nobilitaret: quia unaquaeque arbor de fructu suo agnoscitur. Tale enim magis tale in natura per virtutem perficitur, quod ad ipsam ex naturae origine inclinatur: virtutes enim per se innatae sunt nobis, perficiuntur autem per consuetudinem. Secunda ratio est, ut sanctitas eam undique circumdaret: retro per nobilitatem, ante per
of Christ, carrying her bread from afar, namely to us. Man ate the bread of Angels 1.
12. She is also commended from fortitude, there, Proverbs XXXI, 19: She put her hand to strong things. He calls perfect works strong things, such as loving enemies, doing good to those who hate, and praying for those who persecute us 2.
13. She is also commended from generosity, there, Proverbs XXXI, 20: She opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her palms to the poor. For her generosity was so great that she opened her whole self through generosity. She opened her womb to the Son, her eyes to weeping for sinners, her ears to hearing their prayers, and her mouth to appeasing. Hence it is added, verse 26: She opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. The Gloss: "So that she does not punish immediately, as the law of Moses, but always mercifully spares."
14. She is also commended from the highest blessedness, there, Proverbs XXXI, 28: Her sons arose and proclaimed her most blessed. They proclaimed her blessed in nature, more blessed in grace, most blessed in glory. Or they proclaimed her blessed above all married women, more blessed above all widows, most blessed above all virgins. Or they proclaimed her blessed in the conversion of sinners, more blessed in the conversion of the just, most blessed in the crowning of the elect.
15. She is also commended in the immensity of riches, as there, Proverbs XXXI, 29: Many daughters have gathered riches, that is, all blessed souls individually, with difficulty, meagerly. But you, who are the Mother of God, have surpassed them all in multiplicity, in preciousness, and in the immensity of all graces.
THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES.
The words of Ecclesiastes, son of David, king of Jerusalem 3.
1. The Empress Virgin Mary is commended by Solomon from the usefulness of her nativity and the gloriousness of her assumption. Ecclesiastes I, 5: The sun rises and sets, and returns to its place. This sun is the Virgin Mary, who rose for the whole Church when she was born. But it must be known that in the genealogy she is narrated to have been born from the good and from the evil. That she was born from the good can have a threefold reason. The first is that the antiquity of nobility might ennoble her, because every tree is known from its fruit. For such a thing is more perfected as such in nature through virtue when it is inclined to that very thing from the origin of nature; for virtues are innate to us in themselves, but are perfected by custom. The second reason is that sanctity might surround her on every side: behind by nobility, before by
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