Glossa Ordinaria

I rejoiced greatly. As if he were to say: What you hold, hold fast. Receive nothing else from the heretics, for I rejoice in the things you have; I desire nothing else to be added to you for salvation. Since therefore I rejoice at your good beginning, do not make me grieve at your falling away, for as a watchful guardian I know all that is done concerning you. Walking in the truth. Adam was placed in paradise, that he might work it and keep it. The working designates advancement in effect; the keeping designates the state and constancy of perfection itself.