desert? As Job says, Job: "Who let the wild donkey go free? I gave him the wasteland as his home" (Job 39:5-6). They should be cautious of the lion and be nourished in the desert by sparse vegetation and a small drink. Let them lift their head to the sky and let the burning thir…

y says (Moral. xxx, 23), commenting on the words, "To whom I have given a house in the wilderness" ( Job 39:6 ), "What profits solitude of the body, if solitude of the heart be lacking?" Hence a social life is necessary for the practice of perfection. Now solitude befits those wh…

rum, ut in Job: «Incurvantur cervae ad fetum, et pariunt, et rugitus emittunt [Note: [Col. 1041] 13 Job XXXIX, 6.] ,» quod praedicatores sancti se humiliant, ut alios praedicando attrahant, et subjectis spirituales sollicitudines impendant. Ruga est perfidia, ut in Paulo: «…