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6 Jun 2017

Over Whom Does My Spirit Rest?

Et adjuravit Raguel Tobiam, ut duas hebdomadas moraretur apud eum. 

Adjuramus et nos Dominum nostrum, orantes ut nobiscum maneat, donec perfectionem sanctae requiei per Spiritus sancti gratiam consequamur, qua requiescamus a servilibus actibus, id est, peccatis in corpore, et a pravis cogitationibus in mente; et requiescat in nostro corde et corpore ipse qui ait, Super quem requiscet spiritus meus, nisi super humilem et quietam et trementem sermones meos?


Sanctus Beda, In Librum Beati Partis Tobiae Allegorica Interpretatio

And Raguel adjured Tobias that he stay with him for two weeks. 1

And let us adjure our Lord, praying that He remain with us, until we acquire the perfection of sacred rest through the grace of the Holy Spirit, in which we rest from servile acts, that is, the sins of the body, and from depraved thoughts of the mind, and that He rest in our hearts and body who said, 'Over whom does my spirit rest unless over the humble and quiet and he who fears my words?' 2


Saint Bede, An Allegorical Interpretation of the Book of Tobit

1 Tob 8.23
2 Is 66.2 vers. antiq.

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