CHAPTER X.
ON THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT.
Jesus saith: Why did I flee into Egypt? I answer: Before the fall, there was one way to heaven, broad and clear: broad in the abundance of virtues, clear in the divine wisdom and the obedience of a good will. Then the will being changed, there were two ways, one leading to heaven, the other from it; obedience led to heaven, disobedience seduced. As the choice of good and evil, obedience and disobedience, because he wished otherwise than God wished him to wish. To save man, it was right and just, that one should come who might redeem him, and be possessed of perfect obedience and charity; and in whom those who wish might show charity, and those who wished, malice. But no angel could be sent to redeem man, because I, God, gave not my glory to another, nor was a man found who could appease me for himself, still less for others. Hence I, sole just God, came to justify all.
By my flight to Egypt, I showed the infirmities of my humanity, and fulfilled the prophe-
