Job 36:33

"In order to make her known to her friend. This same light which he kept hidden to hide it from the sight of cruel men and without recognition, he announces it, shows it to him who is no longer a slave under the Law, but has reconciled himself to the grace . "To his friend:" to his imitator; for the son of man has not come to be served, but to serve. "Those who strive to rise in front of him will possess it. They will enjoy this light, those who rise above the goods of the earth. It is announced to them, while they still work to raise, because when they will be mounted they will see it face to face, without it being necessary to call them there. It is said that they endeavor to "rise up in front of him, contra eum," not to attack him, but to go to meet him, as the Apostle says: "In the presence of Jesus -Christ (1). "

He declares of it to His friend, that it is his possession, and that he may come up to it. The friend of truth is a lover of upright conduct. Whence the Truth Itself says to Its disciples, Ye are My friends, if ye have done what I command you. [John 15, 14] For a friend is named as 'the keeper of the soul;' and hence he who endeavours to guard the will of God in His precepts is, not undeservedly, called His friend. Hence is it that the Truth again says to the same disciples, But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you. [John 15, 15] Of this light then of the eternal country, God announces to His friend, that it is his possession, that he should not despair of himself from the frailness of his own infirmity; that he should not think what he was made, but what he was new made; but should know more certainly that he possesses this light, the more truly he is now trampling down the gloom of assailing sins. But it is well subjoined in promise, And that he may come up to it. For what is more difficult than for a man born on the earth, and bearing about earthly and fragile members, to ascend the heights of heaven, and to penetrate the secrets of the spirits above? But the Maker of these very spirits has come to us, and exhibited Himself as a man, even beneath them, as is said of Him to the Father by the Prophet, Thou hast made Him a little lower than the angels. [Ps. 8, 5] And because He found between these selfsame spirits and ourselves the stumbling-block of a discordant life, with wonderful power, and with still more wonderful kindness, creating the higher, and taking on Him the lower nature, He united the highest and lowest together. Hence is it that, on the birth of this selfsame King, the bands of Angels come forth to announce Him, sing a hymn, and, the discordance of their evil conduct being overcome, acknowledge those, as citizens, of whom they before despaired: proclaiming with harmonious voice, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will. [Luke 2, 14] As if they said plainly; Those whom wickedness had separated, let the Goodness now born on earth unite to us. Hence is it, that before His Incarnation we read in the Old Testament, that a man adored an Angel, and was not forbidden to adore him. [Gen.19, 13-16] But when after the coming of the Redeemer, John had prostrated…