6 S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 4 - 1 S p r i n g 2 0 1 8 44–77 44–77 The verses that come second in each of the three Couplets I have composed express the perfection of the Unity and of Love, and according to justice treat of Love as one being, one sole Love, and nothing else. O Deus! This is a frightening being who, at one and the same time engulfs in unison such hatred and such charity! Have good will and compassion for every need. That was the Son in what is proper to his Person. He was purely this and did purely this. But take nothing under your protection. Thus, his Father engulfed him in himself; this cruel great work ever belongs to the Father. Yet it is the Unity of purest love in the Divinity: so that this Unity is also just with the justice of love and includes this Devotion, this Manhood, and this Power; nor would it have anyone left in need. And it includes one’s charity and compassion for those in hell and purgatory; for those unknown to God, or who are known to him but still stray outside his dearest will; and for loving souls, who have more sorrow than all the rest, since they lack what they love. Justice takes up all this into itself. And yet each Person separately has given out what is proper to him, as I have said. But the just nature of the Unity, in which Love belongs to Love and is perfect fruition of herself, does not seek after virtues, virtuous tendencies, or particular works, however pure or of however pure authority they are; and it does not give its protection, out of mercy, to any need, mighty though it is to enrich. For in that fruition of Love there never was and never can be any other work than that one fruition in which the one almighty Deity is Love. Die drie andere waert die ic segghe die enicheit ende Minne volcomen maken, Ende na gherechticheit haer selues pleghen in enen persone al ene Minne ende el niet. Ay deus, wat vreseleker wesene es dat dat selc haten ende selke caritate in een verslent! Te alre noet hebbet onste ende ontfermen. Dat was de sone in properen persone; Dat was hi scone ende wrachte scone. En nemt niet in v bescermen. Daer met verslantene sijn vader: dat wrede grote werc es emmer sine. Ende dat es de alre scoenste enicheit vander Minnen der godheit; soe dat si daer es alsoe gherecht van gherechticheiden van Minnen, dat si op nemt dien ernst ende die menscheit Ende die cracht daermen nieman bij ghebreken en woude. Ende sie nemt op die caritate ende die ontferm herticheit die men hadde op die vander hillen, Ende op die van purgatorien, Ende op die ombekinde van gode, Ende op die bekinde die dolen buten sinen liefsten wille, Ende op die minnende die wee hebben bouen al dit want si dies daruen dat si Minnen. Al dit nempt gherechticheit in hare seluen. Nochtan gaf elc persoen besondere tsine vte, alsoe ic gheseghet hebbe. Mer die gherechte eneghe nature, daer Minne haer seluen met Minne Ende volcomene ghebrukenesse es, sine onderwint hare noch doechde, Noch onste der doechde, noch werke sonderlinghe, Die soe scone sijn Noch van soe scoenre auctoriteit; Noch sine bescermet bi ontfermicheiden ghere noet, die si so moghende es rike te makene: Want in dat ghebruken van Minnen en was nie noch en mach ander werc sijn dan dat enighe ghebruken, daer die eneghe moghende godheit Minne met es.
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