Verse 27.—Fatness covered his face. 50. On the abundance of earthly things closing the eyes.—Sight is indeed in the face, in which also is the more honourable part of the body. Not without reason, therefore, is the intention of the mind designated by the face, since wherever we turn it, thither we see. Fatness, then, covers the face, because the longed-for abundance of earthly things presses down the eyes of the mind, and that which ought to have been honourable in them it befouls before the eyes of God, since it weighs them down with manifold cares. To such men it is not enough merely that they themselves be proud, unless those also who are joined to them likewise glory in their fatness.