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Pascal, Blaise
Fascination. Somnum suum.[242] Figura hujus mundi.[243]
The Eucharist. Comedes panem tuum.[244] Panem nostrum.
Inimici Dei terram lingent.[245] Sinners lick the dust, that is to say, love earthly pleasures.
The Old Testament contained the types of future joy, and the New contains the means of arriving at it. The types were of joy; the means of penitence; and nevertheless the Paschal Lamb was eaten with bitter herbs, cum amaritudinibus.[246]
Singularis sum ego donec transeam.[247]—Jesus Christ before His death was almost the only martyr.