XV.  Now what thing more precious can we have than the eye made whole?  They rejoice who see this created light which shines from heaven, or even that which is given out from a lamp.  And how wretched do they seem who can not see this light?  But wherefore do I speak, and talk of all these things, but to exhort you all to cry out, when Jesus passeth by.  I hold up this light which perhaps ye do not see as an object of love to you, holy brethren.  Believe, while as yet ye see it not; and cry out that ye may see.  How great is thought to be the unhappiness of men who do not see this bodily light?  Does any one become blind; immediately it is said:  “God is angry with him, he has committed some wicked deed.”  So said Tobias’s wife to her husband.  He cried out because of the kid, lest it had come of theft; he did not like to hear the sound of any stolen thing in his house; and she, maintaining what she had done, reproached her husband; and when he said, “Restore it if it be stolen”; she answered insultingly, “Where are thy righteous deeds?” How great was her blindness who maintaineth the theft; and how clear a light he saw, who commanded the stolen thing to be restored!  She rejoiced outwardly in the light of the sun; he inwardly in the light of righteousness.  Which of them was in the better light?

XVI.  It is to the love of this light that I would exhort you, beloved; that ye would cry out by your works, when the Lord passeth by; let the voice of faith sound out, that Jesus was standing still, that is, the unchangeable, abiding wisdom of God, and the majesty of the Word of God, by which all things were made, may open your eyes.  The same Tobias, in giving advice to his son, instructed him to this, to cry out; that is, he instructed him to good works.  He told him to give to the poor, charged him to give alms to the needy, and taught him, saying, “My son, alms suffereth not to come into darkness.”  The blind gave counsel for receiving and gaining sight.  “Alms,” saith he, “suffereth not to come into darkness.”  Had his son in astonishment answered him, “What then, father, hast thou not given alms, that thou speakest to me in blindness; art not thou in darkness, and yet thou dost say to me, Alms suffereth not to come into darkness?” But no, he knew well what the light was concerning which he gave his son instruction, he knew well what he saw in the inner man.  The son held out his hand to his father, to enable him to dwell in heaven.

XVII.  To be brief; that I may conclude this sermon, brethren, with a matter which touches me very nearly, and gives me much pain, see what crowds there are which rebuke the blind as they cry out.  But let them not deter you.  Whosoever among this crowd desire to be healed; for there are many Christians in name, and in works ungodly; let them not deter you from good works.  Cry out amid the crowds that are restraining you, and calling you back, and insulting you, whose lives are evil.  For not only by their