But there is a question about whether there will be in that state of glory choruses, or ring dances, and gesticulations, and the words of the wise who have gone before us in the people of the Christians aggravate and make this question more difficult for they are found to have clearly written this. Nature itself and the experience of natural things seem to insinuate, in fact seem to testify to this. For in this state human beings do not sustain these modest joys which are present in it without motion of their bodies and of almost each of their members. For it is evident to you how from the joy that comes to be in your soul your mouth is moved, and by the motion that is called laughter your whole face is also changed.

original latin

Respondendum igitur videtur hic, vera ac spiritualia gaudia non inundare in corpora humana gesticulationes aut effigiationes huiusmodi, et hoc est quoniam, ut ait quidem ex sapientibus verum gaudium res severa est, hoc est, non frangens, non emolliens, non dissolvens gaudentem, quin potius confortans et erigens ipsum.

Non leviter autem moveri potest aliquis si quis dixerit quod ibi dabuntur ore laudes creatori, cum decentissimum ac debitum modis omnibus per se videatur et corde et ore ibi potissimum laudari creatorem ab his in quos incogitabiliter profusa erit beneficentia largitatis ipsius.

Dicet autem fortassis aliquis quia vocalis illa collaudatio supervacua esset ibi, propter id quod in praecedentibus audivisti, videlicet quoniam virtus vocalis et interpretiva ad alterum tantum sunt et operationes propter indigentiam et imperfectionem alienam.

Quod si dixerit quis quia non parva neque contemnenda pars foelicitatis deerit illi statui futuro, si delectatio harmoniarum maxime bene moratae musicae iuxta sermonem Platonis et suavitas concentuum et harmonici generis cantilenae ibi defuerint, tu iam instructus es ex praecedentibus quia sermo huiusmodi manifeste vergit atque declinat secundum intentionem loquentis ipsum in paradisum sensibilium voluptatum iuxta errorem gentis Sarracenorum. iam autem prohibitus est a te error huiusmodi per me destructionibus demonstrativis.