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| 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 servant4168
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.”4169
| 4169 Isa. xl. 10, lxii. 11; Rev. xxii.
12. | He exhorts
us, therefore,4170
| 4170 I. πιστεύοντας
(believing). | with our whole
heart to attend to this,4171
| 4171 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,4172
and cried, Holy,
holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation4173
is full of His glory.”4174
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 for4175
Him.”4176
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