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(2) [centered]

his real benefit – yet with such
importunity that God grants
the request that He may use it
as a means of moral dis-
-cipline on him who is so indis-
-creet as to urge the suit ~

The text illustrates this.
Explain circumstances &c [etc.].
Gratification less than expected – it even turned loathing.

Thus God deals with men
even now. Men often importune
for Earthly good – which at last be-
-comes a curse to them.

1 See the miser – driven on with the
"auri sacra fames" [Latin "The accursed greed for gold"] – hankering for
gold like a wild beast for his prey.