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26. The Less of Life; And the Saving of It.
“For whosoever would save his own life shall
lose it.”5728 The first
expression is ambiguous; for it may be understood in one way
thus. If any one as being a lover of life, and thinking that the
present life is good, tends carefully his own life with a view to
living in the flesh, being afraid to die, as through death going to
lose it, this man, by the very willing to save in this way his own life
will lose it, placing it outside of the borders of blessedness.
But if any one despising the present life because of my word, which has
persuaded him to strive in regard to eternal life even unto death for
truth, loses his own life, surrendering it for the sake of piety to
that which is commonly called death, this man, as for my sake he has
lost his life, will save it rather, and keep it in possession.
And according to a second way we might interpret the saying as
follows. If any one, who has grasped what salvation really is,
wishes to procure the salvation of his own life, let this man having
taken farewell of this life, and denied himself and taken up his own
cross, and following me, lose his own life to the world; for having
lost it for my sake and for the sake of all my teaching, he will gain
the end of loss of this kind—salvation.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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