2. Ps. cxxii. 2.
POLITICAL WRITINGS 321 the waters, not beneath the waters, of Babylon; such be our humility, that it overwhelm us not.
Sit by the waters, not in the waters, not under the waters; but yet sit, in humble fashion, talk not as thou wouldest in Jerusalem. There thou wilt stand; for of this very hope another Psalm speaketh, singing thus, Our feet shall starui in the courts of Jerusalem.^ There shalt thou be lifted up, if here by penitence and confession thou humble thyself. In the courts then of Jerusalem our feet shall stand, but by the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. For this reason is it meet that thou weep, for the remembrance of Sion.
For many weep with the weeping of Babylon, because they rejoice also with the joy of Babylon. When men rejoice at gains and weep at losses, both are of Babylon. Thou oughtest to weep, but in the remembrance of Sion. If thou weepest in the remembrance of Sion, thou oughtest to weep even when it is well with thee in Babylon. Therefore it is said in a certain Psalm, / found trouble and sorrow; then called I upon the name of the
What meaneth he by saying, / have found? He speaketh of some kind of tribulation, as though it were to be sought; he found it, as though he had sought it. And when he had found it, what gained he by finding it? He called upon the name of the
Lord. Much doth it matter, whether thou findest tribulation, or art found by tribulation. For he saith in another place, The sorrows of hell found me.^ What is. The sorrows of hell found me? What is, / found trouble and sorrow? When sadness sud-
2. Ps. cxxii. 2.
3. Ibid., cxvi. 3, 4. 4. Ibid., xviii. 5.