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Volume 37 · p. 259
Question 173. How does she comprehend in herself the blessing given to Dan?
QUAESTIO CLXXIII. Qualiter comprehendat in se benedictionem datam Dan?
Sequitur benedictio Dan. Genes. XLIX, 16: Dan judicabit populum suum sicut et alia tribus in Israel.
Glossa: « Per officium Dan illecebrosas cogitationes deprehendimus, arguimus, damnamus, castigamus. Recte enim Dan, id est, judicium vocatus est 1. » Et infra: « Si Dan districte populum suum custodiat, si judicium suum diligenter exerceat, fiet ut in caeteris tribubus raro inveniatur quod jure damnari debeat 2. »
Ex his intelligitur, quod per Dan restrictio cogitationum intelligitur: ergo hic quatuor proprietates innuuntur, in quibus sua benedictio consideratur. Prima est cogitationes malas reprehendere. Secunda, arguere. Tertia, damnare. Quarta, castigare.
Istam autem cogitationum restrictionem habuit beatissima Virgo in summo, quae taliter omnes cogitationes ordinatas habuit, quod nullus in ea vel primus motus illicitus exsurgere potuit: et sic benedictionem Dan in summo possedit.
QUESTION 173. How does she comprehend in herself the blessing given to Dan?
The blessing of Dan follows. Genesis 49:16: Dan will judge his people like also another tribe in Israel.
The Gloss says: “Through the office of Dan we detect, accuse, condemn, and chastise enticing thoughts. For rightly was Dan, that is, judgment, named 1.” And below: “If Dan strictly guards his people, if he diligently exercises his judgment, it will happen that in the other tribes there will rarely be found what ought justly to be condemned 2.”
From these things it is understood that through Dan the restraint of thoughts is understood. Therefore here four properties are suggested, in which his blessing is considered. The first is to reprehend evil thoughts. The second, to accuse. The third, to condemn. The fourth, to chastise.
But the most blessed Virgin had this restraint of thoughts in the highest degree, for she had all her thoughts so ordered that no illicit movement, even a first one, could arise in her; and thus she possessed the blessing of Dan in the highest degree.
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