As for you who do not act this way at
all, such things do not concern you. But do thou, O Lord, my God,
give ear; look and see, and have mercy upon me; and heal me --
thou, in whose sight I am become an enigma to myself; this itself
is my weakness.
CHAPTER XXXIV
51. There remain the delights of these eyes of my flesh,
about which I must make my confession in the hearing of the ears
of thy temple, brotherly and pious ears. Thus I will finish the
list of the temptations of carnal appetite which still assail me
-- groaning and desiring as I am to be clothed upon with my house
from heaven.[372]
The eyes delight in fair and varied forms, and bright and
pleasing colors. Let these not take possession of my soul!
Rather let God possess it, he who didst make all these things very
good indeed. He is still my good, and not these. The pleasures
of sight affect me all the time I am awake. There is no rest from
them given me, as there is from the voices of melody, which I can
occasionally find in silence. For daylight, that queen of the
colors, floods all that we look upon everywhere I go during the
day.
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