[1] See below: "He is in the Mid-point," and lxiii. p. 158, "the blessed Point from which nature came: that is, God." See also xxi. p. 45, "Where is now any point of thy pain?" (least part) and xxi. p. 46, "abiding unto the last point"; and lxiv. p. 161, "set the point of our thought." These uses of the word may be compared with the following:--From the _Banquet of Dante Alighieri_, tr. by K. Hillard (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.), Bk. II. xiv. 12, "_Geometry moves between the print and the circle_"; as Euclid says, "the point is the beginning of Geometry, and according to him, the circle is the most perfect figure, and therefore may be considered its end.... The point by reason of its indivisibility is immeasurable, and the circle by reason of its arc cannot be exactly squared, and therefore cannot be measured with precision." Notes by Miss Hillard: "This is why the Deity is represented by a _point. Paradiso_, xxviii. 16: 'A point beheld I,' 'Heaven and all nature, hangs upon that point,' etc. Bk. IV. 6, quoting Aristotle's _Physics_: '_The circle can be called perfect when it is a true circle._ And this is when it contains a point which is equally distant from every part of its circumference.' In the _Vita Nuova_ Love appearing, says--'I am as the centre of a circle, to which all parts of the circumference bear an equal relation' ('_Amor che muove il sole e l'altre stelle_')." From _Neoplatonism_, by C. Bigg, D.D. (S.P.C.K.), p. 122: "Thus we get a triplet--Soul, Intelligence, and a higher Intelligence. The last is spoken of as One, as a point, as neither good nor evil because above both." [2] On this subject, with the "Two Deemings" and "the Godly Will," see xlv., xxxv., xxxvii., lxxxii. _THE FOURTH REVELATION_ CHAPTER XII "The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it it most plenteous" And after this I saw, beholding, the body plenteously bleeding in seeming of[1] the Scourging, as thus:--The fair skin was broken full deep into the tender flesh with sharp smiting all about the sweet body. So plenteously the hot blood ran out that there was neither seen skin nor wound, but as it were all blood. And when it came where it should have fallen down, then it vanished. Notwithstanding, the bleeding continued awhile: till it might be seen and considered.[2] And this was so plenteous, to my sight, that methought if it had been so in kind[3] and in substance at that time, it should have made the bed all one blood, and have passed over about.