Anf-03 iv.iv.xii Pg 17
Luke ix. 59, 60.
None of them whom the Lord chose to Him said, “I have no means to live.” Faith fears not famine. It knows, likewise, that hunger is no less to be contemned by it for God’s sake, than every kind of death. It has learnt not to respect life; how much more food? [You ask] “How many have fulfilled these conditions?” But what with men is difficult, with God is easy.253 253
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiii Pg 36
Luke ix. 59, 60.
He gave a clear confirmation to those two laws of the Creator—that in Leviticus, which concerns the sacerdotal office, and forbids the priests to be present at the funerals even of their parents. “The priest,” says He, “shall not enter where there is any dead person;4409 4409 Animam defunctam.
and for his father he shall not be defiled”4410 4410
Anf-03 vi.iii.xii Pg 24
Luke ix. 59, 60; but it is not said there that the man did it.
fulfilled, before he heard it, that highest precept of the Lord, “He who prefers father or mother to me, is not worthy of me.”8677 8677
Anf-01 ix.ii.ix Pg 13
Luke ix. 61, 62.
