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But you do not have all of them, although you have them joined. So then I too say to you that, having, I have nothing, and I am poor and I see a treasure laid up for me. When I am satisfied, I hunger, (181) when I am poor, I am rich, when I drink, I also thirst, and the drink is exceedingly sweet; one taste quenches all the thirst of myriads, and I always thirst to drink, drinking absolutely beyond satiety. I desire to have the whole and to drink, if it were possible, all the abysses at once; since this is impossible, I tell you that I always thirst, although in my mouth the water is always flowing, gushing, surrounding. But seeing the abysses, I do not think I drink anything at all; desiring to have the whole, and again richly having the whole entirely in my hand, I am always poor, having the whole absolutely joined with the small. The sea, therefore, is in the drop, and again the abysses of abysses are joined to it; therefore, having one drop, I have all of them joined. And again this drop, which I tell you I possess, exists whole and indivisible, intangible, in every way ungraspable, (182) likewise uncircumscribable, completely hard to perceive, or rather it is God whole.

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Τάς δέ πάσας σύ οὐκ ἔχεις, καίτοι συνημμένας ἔχεις. Οὔτω γοῦν κἀγώ σοι λέγω, ὅτι ἔχων οὐδέν ἔχω καί πτωχός εἰμι καί πλοῦτον ἀποκείμενον ὁρῶ μοι. Ὅτε χορτασθῶ, λιμάσσω, (181) ὅτε δέ πένομαι, πλουτῶ, ὅτε πίνω, καί διψῶ, καί γλυκύ τό πόμα λίαν˙ μία γεῦσις πᾶσαν δίψαν μυριάδων καταπαύει, καί διψῶ ἀεί τοῦ πίνειν ὑπέρ κόρον πάντως πίνων. Σχεῖν ἐπιθυμῶ τό ὅλον καί πιεῖν, εἰ οἷόν τε, πάσας τάς ἀβύσσους ἅμα˙ ἀδυνάτου τούτου ὄντος πάντοτε διψεῖν σοι λέγω, καίπερ ἐν τῷ στόματί μου πάντοτε τό ὕδωρ ἔστι ῥέον, βλύζον, περικλύζον. Ἀλλά βλέπων τάς ἀβύσσους οὐ δοκῶ τι πίνειν ὅλως˙ σχεῖν ἐπιθυμῶν τό ὅλον, πλουσίως τε πάλιν ἔχων ὅλον ὅλως ἐν χειρί μου, πάντοτε πτωχός ὑπάρχω, μετά τοῦ μικροῦ τό ὅλον συνημμένον πάντως ἔχων. Θάλασσα οὖν τῇ σταγόνι, ἄβυσσοι δέ πάλιν ταύτῃ τῶν ἀβύσσων συνημμέναι˙ μίαν οὖν σταγόνα ἔχων συνημμένας πάσας ἔχω. Ἡ σταγών δέ πάλιν αὕτη, ἥνπερ λέγω σοι κεκτῆσθαι, ἄτμητος ὑπάρχει ὅλη, ἀναφής, ἄληπτος πάντῃ, (182) ἀπερίγραπτος ὡσαύτως, δυσθεώρητος εἰς ἅπαν, ἤ Θεός ὅλος ὑπάρχει.