What I have said shows clearly enough the Literal meaning of the first part.

In the second, there is to be understood how it makes manifest what I experienced from the struggle within me; and this part has two divisions.

In the first place it describes the quality of these oppositions, according as their cause was within me.

Then I narrate what the one and the other voice of opposition said; and upon that firstly which described what was being lost, in the passage which is the second of that part and the third of the Song.

In evidence, then, of the meaning of the first division, it is to be known that things must be named by that part of their form which is the noblest and best, as Man by Reason, and not by Sense, nor by aught else which is less noble; therefore, when one speaks of the living man, one should understand the man using Reason, which is his especial Life, and is the action of his noblest part.