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Chapter
IV.—The Harvest Plenteous.
Then Peter, filled with admiration, said:721
| 721 [With chaps.
4–11 compare Homily VIII. 4–11. The correspondence is
quite close.—R.] | “You see, brethren, how every
word of the Lord spoken prophetically is fulfilled. For I
remember that He said, ‘The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the
labourers are few; ask therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would
send out labourers into His harvest.’722
Behold, therefore, the things which
are foretold in a mystery are fulfilled. But whereas He said
also, ‘Many shall come from the east and the west, from the north
and the south, and shall recline in the bosom of Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob;’723
this also is, as
you see, in like manner fulfilled. Wherefore I entreat you, my
fellow-servants and helpers, that you would learn diligently the order
of preaching, and the ways of absolutions, that ye may be able to save
the souls of men, which by the secret power of God acknowledge whom
they ought to love, even before they are taught. For you see that
these men, like good servants, long for him whom they expect to
announce to them the coming of their Lord, that they may be able to
fulfil His will when they have learned it. The desire, therefore,
of hearing the word of God, and inquiring into His will, they have from
God; and this is the beginning of the gift of God, which is given to
the Gentiles, that by this they may be able to receive the doctrine of
truth.
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