40/47 2 .-- _Cum majorem inimicum corpore non habeam._ 2 Cel., 3, 63. These are momentary but inevitable obscurations, moments of forgetfulness, of discouragement, when a man is not himself, and repeats mechanically what he hears said around him. The real St.Francis is, on the contrary, the lover of nature, he who sees in the whole creation the work of divine goodness, the radiance of the eternal beauty, he who, in the Canticle of the Creatures, sees in the body not the Enemy but a brother: _Caepit hilariter loqui ad corpus; Gaude, frater corpus._ 2 Cel., 3, 137. Gulielmus dixit quod ita magnum peccatum erat jacere cum uxore sua quam cum concubina._ Doellinger, _loc. |