See, then, what has been the prudence of God. This meaning is concealed
under another in an infinite number of passages, and in some, though rarely,
it is revealed; but yet so that the passages in which it is concealed are
equivocal and can suit both meanings; whereas the passages where it is
disclosed are unequivocal and can only suit the spiritual meaning.
So that this cannot lead us into error and could only be misunderstood by so
carnal a people.
For when blessings are promised in abundance, what was to prevent them from
understanding the true blessings, but their covetousness, which limited the
meaning to worldly goods? But those whose only good was in God referred them
to God alone. For there are two principles, which divide the wills of men,
covetous