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43. Finally, 0 Lord, who art God, and not flesh and blood, if
man doth see anything less, can anything lie hid from "T by good
Spirit," who shall "lead me into the land of uprightness,'' x
which Thou Thyself, by those words, weft about to reveal to future
readers, although he through whom they were spoken, amid the many
interpretations that might have been found, fixed on but one? Which,
if it be so, let that which he thought on be more exalted than the
rest. But to us, 0 Lord, either point out the same, or any other
true one which may be pleasing unto Thee; so that whether Thou makest
known to us that which Thou didst to that man of Thine, or some other
by occasion of the same words, yet Thou mayest feed us, not error
deceive us. Behold, 0 Lord my God, how many things we have
written concerning a few words, how many, I beseech Thee! What
strength of ours, what ages would suffice for all Thy books after this
manner? Permit me, therefore, in these more briefly to confess unto
Thee, and to select some one true, certain, and good sense, that
Thou shall inspire, although many [senses offer themselves, where
many, indeed, I may; this being the faith of my confession, that if
I should say that which Thy minister felt, rightly and profitably,
this I should strive for; the which if I shall not attain, yet I
may say that which Thy Truth willed through Its words to say unto
me, which said also unto him what It willed.
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