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Louis Segond 1910
La lumière est douce, et il est agréable aux yeux de voir le soleil.
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Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:
Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:
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, since, as Augustine says (Confess. x), "all love to know the resplendent truth," and as we read in Eccles. 11:7, "the light is sweet and it is delightful for the eyes to see the sun." Therefore blindness of mind is not a sin. On the contrary, Gregory (Moral. xxxi, 45) reckons b…
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