[204]Not in Pepwell.
[205]Pepwell reads: "and for nothing else."
[206]Had never received it from Him.
[207]Pure Love, or Charity, which "attains to God Himself, that it may abide in Him, not that any advantage may accrue to us from Him" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II.-ii. Q. 23, A. 6). For the whole doctrine of "Pure Love or Disinterested Religion," cf. F. von Hugel, The Mystical Element of Religion, ii. pp. 152-181.
[208]So both MSS.; Pepwell reads: "blessedness."
[209]Hindering or marring.
[210]Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II.-ii. Q. 27, A. 3; and F. von Hugel, op. cit., ii. p. 167.
[211]In the Divine Essence.
[212]So Harl. MS. 674, I take "it" as the beatitude of man which is God Himself.
[213]Cf. Dante, Par. xxxiii, 143-145:—