• Perhaps an allusion to “what the Spirit saith unto the churches,” Revelation 2:7:⁠— “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” And also the “hidden manna,” and the “morning star,” and the “white raiment,” and the name not blotted “out of the book of life.” ↩
• Milton, Paradise Lost , V 71:⁠— “Since good the more Communicated, more abundant grows.” ↩

• Convito , IV 20:⁠— “According to the Apostle, ‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and Cometh down from the Father of lights.’ He says then that God only giveth this grace to the soul of him whom he sees to be prepared and disposed in his person to receive this divine act⁠ ⁠… Whence if the soul is imperfectly placed, it is not disposed to receive this blessed and divine infusion; as when a pearl is badly disposed, or is imperfect, it cannot receive the celestial virtue, as the noble Guido Guinizzelli says in an ode of his, beginning, ‘To noble heart love doth for shelter fly.’ The soul, then, may be ill placed in the person through defect of temperament, or of time; and in such a soul this divine radiance never shines.