Love of spiritual goods already possesses and enjoys them
Thesis LVI. This holds good most of all, by far, in the love and desire of spiritual things: wisdom, truth, holiness, righteousness and charity. Whoever loves earthly things does not gain them simply by loving them, nor rest in them as things gained, nor take delight in enjoying them in his mind.
But whoever loves righteousness, truth, wisdom or charity by that very fact gains, has and possesses those goods, and so enjoys them with delight and delights in enjoying them. So whoever loves God, who is eternal wisdom itself, truth, charity and righteousness, enjoys God and delights in him by the very act of love, which possesses its object.
It follows that the names of delight and sweetness are rightly given to acts of love and desire as well, especially when they concern God and divine things, as Augustine does throughout.
Latin
LVI. Quod in amore ac desiderio rerum spiritualium, sapientiae, veritatis, sanctitatis, justitiae & charitatis, multo maxime locum habet. Nam qui diligit res terrenas, non hoc ipso quod eas diligit, etiam adipiscitur, nec tanquam in adeptis conquiescit, neque quasi fruens animo delectatur. Quisquis vero diligit justitiam, veritatem, sapientiam, charitatem, hoc ipso bona illa adipiscitur, habet, & possidet; & per hoc etiam iis cum delectatione fruitur, & cum fruitione delectatur. Adeoque qui diligit Deum, qui est ipsa aeterna sapientia, veritas, charitas, justitia, ipso quoque dilectionis actu, tanquam objectum suum possidente, fruitur & delectatur Deo. Unde sequitur etiam actibus amoris & desiderii, praesertim quum circa Deum & res divinas versantur, delectationis & suavitatis nomen recte tribui, ut fit passim ab Augustino.