68. For there are spiritual nostrils, as we
read, which the spouse of the Word has, to whom it is said:
“And the smell of thy nostrils;” Cant.
vii. 8.
and in another place: “The Lord smelled a smell of
sweetness.” Gen. viii. 21. There are,
then, as it were, inward members of a man, whose hands are considered
to be in action, his ears in hearing, his feet in a kind of progress in
a good work. And so from what is done we gather as it were
figures of the members, for it is not suitable for us to imagine
anything in the inner man after a fleshly manner.