e who do not themselves work on the land, are busied with other labors, for "man is born to labor" ( Job 5:7 ): and thus they eat the bread for which others have labored in the sweat of their brow. Reply to Objection 4: Although the place of the earthly paradise avails not man fo…

rosperitas in hoc praesenti saeculo inveniri valet, quia in exsilio sumus, et ad laborem nascimur (Job. V, 7) . Et sicut flagella infantes erudiunt ad discendum sapientiae decus, vel bonis assuescere moribus, ita et nos laboribus et doloribus admonemur ad perpetuae beatitudinis…

non credidit. Avis, anima hominis, ut in Job: «Et avis nascitur ad volandum [Note: [Col. 0871] 14 Job V, 7.] ,» quod anima pura in contemplatione se extendit. Avis, instabilis quisque, ut in Parabolis: «Avis transmigrat de loco suo [Note: [Col. 0871] 15 Prov. XXVII, 8.] ,» qu…