body, so constancy maintains the soul’s stability. So he said that his reins were loosed because with unguarded longing he had sought the happiness of worldly things. 22. And I was brought to nothing, and I knew not: and I became as a beast before thee. He had rightly been brought to nothing in clinging to such desires, so that by envying sinners he seemed to wrong his Maker. It is the man seen to be emptied of true understanding who comes to nothing. Further, he says that he did not know this. Ignorance