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| Chapter XXVII. Scripture proofs by which one who is aiming at perfection is taught not to take back again what he has given up and renounced.
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Chapter XXVII.
Scripture proofs by which one who is aiming at
perfection is taught not to take back again what he has given up and
renounced.
If then through the
desire of perfection you have forsaken all things and followed Christ
who says to thee, “Go sell all that thou hast, and give to the
poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come follow
me,”905
why, having put your
hand to the plough, do you look back, so that you will be declared by
the voice of the same Lord not to be fit for the kingdom of
heaven?906
When secure on the top of the gospel roof,
why do you descend to carry away something from the house, from those
things, namely, which beforetime you despised? When you are out in the
field and working at the virtues, why do you run back and try to clothe
yourself again with what belongs to this world, which you stripped off
when you renounced it?907
But if you were
hindered by poverty from having anything to give up, still less ought
you to amass what you never had before. For by the grace of the Lord
you were for this purpose made ready that you might hasten to him the
more readily, being hampered by no snares of wealth. But let no one who
is wanting in this be disappointed; for there is no one who has not
something to give up. He has renounced all the possessions of this
world, whoever has thoroughly eradicated the desire to possess
them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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