Let us make this premise, let’s reflect on this antecedent, in which the mercy of God takes its place. Normally, we look for this consistency, this identity in what we ourselves do, or in what we are, which is the same. Thus, our life never has that feeling, that experience of full certainty, which the word “peace” indicates, that certainty and that fullness–to use a hendiadys–that full certainty, that certainty and that fullness without which there is no peace and thus no gladness and no joy.
Così, la nostra vita non ha mai quel sentimento, quell’esperienza della certezza piena, che la parola “pace” indica, quella certezza e quella pienezza - per fare un’endiadi -, quella certezza piena, quella certezza e quella pienezza senza della quale non c’è pace e perciò non c’è allegrezza e non c’è gioia.