Clay And Water

Exspuit in terram et fecit lutum ex sputo et linivit lutum super oculos eius... Secundum allegoriam: saliva sive sputum, quod ex ore procedit, quod etiam salsum est, significat Dei sapientiam, de qua Ecclesiastici vigesimo quarto: Ego ex ore Altissimi prodii primognita etc. Terra, caro Virgnis; Psalmus: Terra nostra dabit fructum suum. Saliva terrae coniungitur, quando Dei Filius ex Virgine nascitur, et fit lutum, cum Verbum caro factum est, et hoc ad nostram reformationem, secundum Augustinum. Sicut Deus hominem de limo terrae formavit, ita per idem genus luti humanum genus reparavit. Hoc luto inunguntur oculi nostri, dum in Christum credentes illuminantur unctione sancti Spriitus, de qua primae Ionannis secundo: Unctio docebit vos de omnibus. Et lavamur in aquis Siloe, id est sacrae Scripturae, quae cum silentio fluunt, quia non strepitu verborum mundanae philosophiae fucantur vel colorantur, et in humilibus requiescunt et de montibus descendunt; Isaiae octavo: Aquas Siloe, quae fluunt cum silentio. Sanctus Bonaventura, Commentarius In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput IX Source: Here, p801

He spat on the earth and He made clay from the spit and He anointed his eyes with the clay... 1 According to allegory the saliva or spit, which comes from the mouth, because it is salty, signifies the wisdom of God, concerning which it is said in the twenty fourth chapter of Ecclesiasticus: 'I, the first born, came forth from the mouth of the Most High...' 2 The earth is the flesh of the Virgin; the Psalm says: 'Our earth shall give forth its fruit.' 3 The saliva is joined with the earth when the Son of God is born from the Virgin, and made clay, when the Word is made flesh, and this for our salvation, according to Augustine: 'As God fashioned man from the mud of the earth, so through the same way of clay He restored the race of men.' 4 With this clay He anoints our eyes, when believing in Christ we are illuminated by the unction of the Holy Spirit, according to the second chapter of the first letter of John: 'With anointing He shall teach you everything.' 5 And we are washed in the waters of Shiloah, that is, Sacred Scripture, which flow quietly, because we are not stained or dyed with the clamour of the words of worldly philosophy, but among the humble these waters come to rest, and from the mountains they descend, as in the eighth chapter of Isaiah: 'Waters of Shiloah, which flow quietly.' 6 Saint Bonaventura, Commentary On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 9 1 Jn 9.6 2 Sirach 24.3 3 Ps 84.13 4 Aug Tract John 44.2 5 1 Jn 2.27 6 Isaiah 8.6