1. If _here we had a continuing city_ we should rightly mourn with most abundant tears that we had lost such a fellow-citizen. But if _we_ rather _seek one to come_,[979] as befits us, it is nevertheless no small cause of grief that we are bereaved of a guide so indispensable. We ought, however, to regulate passion with knowledge and to mitigate grief with the _confidence of hope_.[980] Nor does it become any one to wonder if love compels groaning, if desolation draws forth tears: yet we must set a limit to these things, nay in no small measure be consoled while we gaze _not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal_.[981] First, indeed, we ought to rejoice with the holy soul, lest he accuse us of want of charity, saying also himself what the Lord said to the apostles, "_If ye loved me ye would rejoice because I go unto the Father._"[982] The spirit of our father has gone before us to _the Father of spirits_,[983] and we are convicted, not only as wanting in charity, but even as guilty of ingratitude for all the benefits which came to us through him, if we do not rejoice with him who has _departed_ from labour to rest, from danger to safety, from _the world unto the Father_.[984] Therefore, if it is an act of filial piety to weep for Malachy who is dead, yet more is it an act of piety to rejoice with Malachy who is alive. Is he not alive? Assuredly he is, and in bliss. _In the eyes of the foolish he seemed to have died; but he is in peace._[985]