"You have hated those who regard vanities. Because God is a God of truth, He rightly hates vanities, that is, the absence of truth, as is everything that is outside of Christ who, or rather, whose faith and Word, is the truth promised of old in the Law. Supervain is more than vain. Those who after such great brightness of the Gospel still obstinately look to their own Messiah act inanely beyond all inanity and vainly beyond all vanity, for they expect a Messiah in earthly things. But I, he says, will hope in the Lord, that is, in spiritual things with which the Lord of truth is, for those things are both true and truths, and I will rejoice, not in the pleasure of the world, but in Thy mercy."
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