102. And well did he say oil of gladness,
lest you should think Him a creature; for it is the nature of this sort
of oil that it will by no means mingle with moisture of another
kind. Gladness, too, does not anoint the body, but brightens the
inmost heart, as the prophet said: “Thou hast put gladness
in my heart.” Ps. iv. 7. So as he
loses his pains who wishes to mix oil with moister matter, because
since the nature of oil is lighter than others, when the others settle,
it rises and is separated. How do those wretched pedlars think
that the oil of gladness can by their tricks be mingled with other
creatures, since of a truth corporeal things cannot be mingled with in
corporeal, nor things created with uncreated?