Glossa Ordinaria

He brought me in. Of how great sweetness and of how great power this restoration is, is shown when she adds, He brought me in. That is, he so gladdened me with the hope of future glory that now I do not feel the labors of the world. He brought me in. As soon as my throat touched the sweetness of his grace, I feel myself so restored in spirit and carried over from the love of earthly things into the things above, as if, brought into the wine cellar, I had been refreshed by the fragrance and the cup of new wine. Typically the grace of the Holy Spirit is signified by wine; the wine cellar is the Church, in whose unity alone the Holy Spirit is wont to be given and received; which Church, gathered from the whole world, God has built for himself into one house, which the Holy Spirit has consecrated with his charisms. And since this structure stands upon the foundation of the greatest charity by his own working, it is rightly added: He set charity in order in me. The charity of many is disordered, in that what is in the first place they put third or fourth. First, God is to be loved; second, parents; then children, after them the household, who also, if they are good, are to be set before evil children. According to this, in the Gospel he lays down what is proper to the love of each. You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself. Enemies not with your whole strength, not as yourself, but simply: for it suffices that we love them and do not hold them in hatred. Or, he himself first loved me, and by loving granted that I should know how to love him. Or, he set in order, that is, with ordered charity he joined my individual members, that is, all the elect, to himself; the more eminent he embraces with fuller affection. He shows how far charity lifts up the mind which it has perfectly absorbed away from the love of weak things, when it is added: