109. We then were wild beasts, and therefore
the Lord said: “Beware of false prophets, which come in
sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening
wolves.” S. Matt. vii. 15. But now,
through the Holy Spirit, the rage of lions, the spots of leopards, the
craft of foxes, the rapacity of wolves, have passed away from our
feelings; great, then, is the grace which has changed earth to heaven,
that the conversation of us, who once were wandering as wild beasts in
the woods, might be in heaven. Phil. iii. 20.