Vice: Lust
Petition: Deliver us from evil
Gift: Wisdom
Virtue: Peacemakers
Beatitude: Sons of God
Here, the soul prays: “Deliver us from evil,” as a remedy for lust. Hugh understands this call for deliverance as a cry for freedom. “Fittingly,” he says, “the healed servant asks for freedom.” In return, he receives the gift of wisdom, “which gift restores lost liberty to the captive,” so that “now through the help of grace, he escapes the bonds of unjust domination that he was powerless in his own strength [to escape]”… The end result is a tranquil composedness within the soul, which Hugh, following Augustine, calls rest and peace: “Finally, the soul, at peace within itself and desiring nothing externally, rests wholly within through love.”
Material from Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen and Stephen R. Spencer, editors, The Sermon on the Mount: Through the Centuries from the Early Church to John Paul II (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2007) 77.