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Pseudo-Chrysostom
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 5
Mt 5, 8English original
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
He who in thought and deed fulfils all righteousness, sees God in his heart, for righteousness is an image of God, for God is righteousness. So far as any one has rescued himself from evil, and works things that are good, so far does he see God, either hardly, or fully, or sometimes, or always, according to the capabilities of human nature. But in that world to come the pure in heart shall see God face to face, not in a glass, and in enigma as here.