“He that loves
wisdom, ”saith the Holy Ghost, “will obtain it, for it will not enter into a
malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins”(Wis.i.4). St. John was
from his childhood an angel of purity, on which account he was particularly
beloved by Jesus, and endowed by the Holy Ghost with such wisdom and knowledge
that, as St. Augustine has remarked, he begins his gospel in a manner more
lofty and sublime than the other three evangelists. For while they walk with
the God-man upon earth, speaking comparatively little of His divinity, St.
John, as if despising the world, soars beyond the vault of heaven, above the
hosts of angels, and comes to Him by Whom all things are made, saying, “In the
beginning was the Word. “At the Last Supper he was permitted to lean on the
bosom of Jesus, but what he there drank in secretly he imparted openly. Apply
thyself, therefore, to purity of heart, and thou shalt be like St. John, a
beloved disciple of Jesus, and shalt be filled with heavenly wisdom.
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