1992: 2.Kor.3 kirjoitti:18 Me kaikki, jotka kasvot peittämättöminä katselemme Herran kirkkautta kuin kuvastimesta, muutumme saman kirkkauden kaltaisiksi, kirkkaudesta kirkkauteen. Tämän saa aikaan Herra, joka on Henki.
Jerome (eli Hieronymus) kertoo St. Paula:sta, joka Blesilla:n tyttärenä tunnetaan:
She was just twenty. Then was shown what treasures
of grace were hidden in that soul, and how much of
supernatural beauty had been lost by her hitherto care
less life. Courageously did that young widow raise the
standard of the Cross of Jesus Christ, and with the
Hood of light which had been showered upon her, show
less sorrow for her widowhood than for the fact that she
had ceased to he a virgin. She who had spent so many
hours before in adorning herself and in hunting for
every combination of colour which could enhance her
beauty, chose for her mirror henceforth the face of God,
and repeated confidently those words of the Apostle :
But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open
face, are transformed into the same image. She,
whose slaves had been employed half the morning in
arranging her hair in the most artistic fashion, and the
shape of whose graceful head had disappeared sometimes
under a load of plaits and bands, learnt henceforth
that it is enough for a woman to be veiled. She, who
grumbled at the inequalities even of a feather-bed and
found it difficult to leave her sumptuous couch till late
in the day, was now the first to rise, the most vigilant
in prayer, the first to sing the Alleluia and join in the
praises of God : and often, kneeling on the bare ground,
tears would stream down that face which formerly was so
carefully rouged and painted. She took to wearing
dresses of dark and sombre hue : instead of gold and
jewelled waistbands she substituted a girdle of white
wool, less to show off her beautiful waist than to keep
her dress in its place : her shoes were equally simple :
the price which she formerly gave for jewelled sandals
and other mundane superfluities was now devoted to
the poor.
Such is the portrait drawn for us by St. Jerome of
Blesilla after her conversion.
Lyhyesti:
Blesilla koristautui kiireestä kantapäähän ennen uskoon kääntymistään,
puuterilla ja meikeillä ehostettu. Niillä Jeromen mukaan (2.Kor.3:18)
peitettiin kasvot.
Muutamaa jaetta aiemmin kerrotaan: "15 Yhä vieläkin heidän sydämensä päällä on peite Mooseksen lakia luettaessa."
Sydämensä päällä siis, mutta jakeessa 18 puhutaan kasvojen peittämisestä.
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