5. Let us rejoice therefore, brothers, let us rejoice as is meet, with our father, for if it is an act of filial piety to mourn for Malachy who is dead, yet more is it an act of piety to rejoice with Malachy who is alive. Is he not alive? He is, and in bliss. Certainly, _in the eyes of the foolish he seemed to have died; but he is in peace_.[1057] In fine, _now a fellow-citizen with the saints, and of the household of God_,[1058] he at once sings and gives thanks, saying, _We went through fire and water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place._[1059] He _went_, clearly, in manly fashion, and he _went through_[1060] happily. The true Hebrew celebrated the Passover in spirit, and as he went, he said to us, "_With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you._"[1061] _He went through fire and water_,[1062] whom neither experiences of sadness could crush, nor pleasures hold back. For there is below us a place which fire wholly claims as its own, so that the wretched Dives could not have there even the least drop of _water_ from the _finger_ of _Lazarus_.[1063] There is also above _the city of God_ which _the streams of the river make glad_,[1064] _a torrent of pleasure_,[1065] _a cup which inebriates, how goodly_![1066] Here, _in the midst_, truly is found _the knowledge of good and evil_,[1067] and in this place we may receive the _trial_ of pleasure and _of affliction_.[1068] Unhappy Eve brought us into these alternations. Here clearly is day and night; for in the lower world there is only night, and in heaven only day.[1069] Blessed is the soul which passes through both, neither ensnared by pleasure nor _fainting at tribulation_.[1070]