Commentary Par V 10-12

See Tozer's paraphrase of these verses and his comment on them: '"and if aught else leads men's... desires astray, this is nothing but a faint trace of that eternal light, misunderstood, which makes itself seen in the object of desire."  The view here stated is the same which is found in [Purg XVII 103-5] and [Purg XVII 127-9], viz. that both virtue and vice in man proceed from love, or the desire of what is good, only in the case of vice the desire is misled by a false appearance of good.'