Verse 13: 'Be silent a little while, that I may speak whatever my mind shall suggest to me.' 44. Those who speak carnally are to be recalled to silence. — He indicates that those spoke by the sense of the flesh whom he therefore restrains to silence, that he may say those things which his mind shall suggest to him. As if he openly said: I speak not carnally but spiritually, because through the sense of the spirit I hear the things which I utter through the ministry of the body. Whence he presently ascends to heights, and lifts himself up amid mysteries, and changes the rebuke which he had uttered into mystical words, saying: