For thus Job: ‘The whole world is a place of trial to men upon the earth 4370 4370 Job vii. For such things as these serve for exercise and trial, so that, having approved ourselves zealous and chosen servants of Christ, we may be fellow-heirs with the saints 4369 4369 Cf. But to us in this present life they are above all an uninterrupted passage -it is indeed our season. Now the unbelievers do not consider that there is a season for feasts, because they spend all their lives in revelling and follies and the feasts which they keep are an occasion of grief rather than of joy. But we should especially remember it, and not at all forget its commemoration from time to time. Nevertheless, it is not becoming, on this account, that we should neglect the feast. For heretics, corrupt in their mind, untried in the faith, rising against the truth, violently persecute the Church, and of the brethren, some are scourged and others torn with stripes, and hardest of all, their insults reach even to the Bishops. For, indeed, numerous afflictions and bitter persecutions directed against the Church have been against us.
29.’ For troubled as we are, because we are so far from you, He moves us to write, that by a letter we might comfort ourselves, and provoke one another to good 4368 4368 Cf.
Keeping the feast here with the brethren, still I keep it with you also in will and in spirit, for we send up prayers in common to God, ‘Who hath granted us not only to believe in Him, but also now to suffer for His sake 4367 4367 Phil. 12, behold, I write to you even from Rome. have oppressed you together with us with afflictions and sorrows yet, God having comforted us by our mutual faith 4366 4366 Cf. 1., which will take place according to annual custom. 57.Īgain, my beloved brethren, I am ready to notify to you the saving feast 4364 4364 Vid.
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