Chapter XXXIV.
The postponement of the answer to the question
raised.
Serenus
: Although your
proposals would rob us of our whole night’s rest, so that we
should not notice the approach of the rising dawn, and should be
tempted greedily to prolong our conference till sunrise, yet since the
solving of the question raised, if we began to trace it out, would
launch us on a wide and deep sea of questions, which the shortness of
the time at our disposal would not permit us to traverse, I think it
will be more convenient to reserve it for consideration another night,
when by the raising of this question I shall receive from your very
ready converse some spiritual joy and richer fruit, and we shall be
able if the Holy Spirit grants us a prosperous breeze to penetrate more
freely into the intricacies of the questions raised. Wherefore let us
enjoy a little sleep, and so shake off the drowsiness that steals over
our eyes, as the dawn approaches, and then we will go together to
church, for the observance of Sunday bids us do this, and after service
will come back, and as you wish, discuss with redoubled delight what
the Lord may have given to us for our common improvement.