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Glossa Ordinaria
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 5
Mt 5, 8English original
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
(ap. Anselm.) Purity of heart comes properly in the sixth place, because on the sixth day man was created in the image of God, which image was shronded by sin, but is formed anew in pure hearts by grace. It follows rightly the beforementioned graces, because if they be not there, a clean heart is not created in a man.