In the preceding chapter this glorious Lady is praised according to one of her component parts, that is, Love.

In this chapter I intend to explain that passage which begins, "Her aspect shows delights of Paradise," and here it is requisite to discuss and praise her other part, Wisdom.
The text then says that in the face of this Lady things appear which show us joys of Paradise; and it distinguishes the place where this appears, namely, in the eyes and the smile.

And here it must be known that the eyes of Wisdom are her demonstrations, whereby one sees the Truth most certainly; but her persuasions are in her smile, in which persuasions the inner Light of Wisdom reveals itself without any veil or concealment.

And in these two is felt that most exalted joy which is the supreme good in Paradise.

This joy cannot be in any other thing here below, except in gazing into these eyes and upon that smile.