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| Chapter XXXIV.—Great is the reward of good works with God. Joined together in harmony, let us implore that reward from Him.
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Chapter XXXIV.—Great is the reward of
good works with God. Joined together in harmony, let us implore that reward
from Him.
The good servant139
receives the
bread of his labour with confidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look
his employer in the face. It is requisite, therefore, that we be prompt
in the practice of well-doing; for of Him are all things. And thus He
forewarns us: “Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before
His face, to render to every man according to his work.”140
He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart
to attend to this,141
| 141 The
text here seems to be corrupt. Some translate, “He warns us with
all His heart to this end, that,” etc. | that we be not
lazy or slothful in any good work. Let our boasting and our confidence be
in Him. Let us submit ourselves to His will. Let us consider the whole
multitude of His angels, how they stand ever ready to minister to His
will. For the Scripture saith, “Ten thousand times ten thousand
stood around Him, and thousands of thousands ministered unto Him,142
and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of
Sabaoth; the whole creation is full of His glory.”143
And let us therefore, conscientiously gathering together in
harmony, cry to Him earnestly, as with one mouth, that we may be made
partakers of His great and glorious promises. For [the Scripture] saith,
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for
Him.”144
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