elle (tristitia) est occasion d’une syncope irascible (spem) dans la dynamique du concupiscible (laetitiam). Mais cela est accidentel car la vertu cause premièrement et par soi de la joie: « devotio per se quidem et principaliter spiritualem laetitiam mentis causat : ex consequenti autem et per accident causat tristitiam. »

There is a distinction between sorrow that is according to God, because if in the house of self-knolwedge there is only confusion, it has to be balanced by X because otherwise it does drag one down to the depths.