Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God.
“For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.” (Job 16:20)
When the intention of the heart is good, the body shall be full of light.
“For what is denoted by the eye, but the intent of the heart? as it is written, if thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. [Matt. 6, 22] For when any thing is done with a good intention, the enacting of that intention contracts no soil in the sight of God; and so when friends are full of words, i.e. when the very same persons detract that are joined with us in faith, ‘the eye’ must needs ‘pour out tears to God,’ that so the whole bent of our heart may run out in the piercing of interior love, and lift itself up to the things of the interior, the more exactly that being forced back by external reproaches, it is driven to turn back within, lest it should vanish away without.” (4) -St. Gregory The Dialogist
