Capitolo 72
to men you/he/she has been confused, for that God haths despised them."
Making comments on this, St. Jerome which the heir's methinks I am in the
the persistence of ugly calumny, tells in its letter Nepotanius: "The
it says apostle: 'If I still arranged men, I should not be the servant of
Christ.' He doesn't look for anymore to please men, and so you/he/she is made Christ
servant" (Epist. 2). And again, in his/her letter to Asella concerning
those that he was falsely accused of loving: "I give thanks to mine
God that I am worthy to be one whom the world hates" (Epist. 99).
And to the monk Heliodorus he writes: "You are wrong, brother, You
it is wrong if you think there is never once when the Cristiano
doesn't suffer from persecution. For our adversary it goes around as a roaring
lion that looks for what he can devour, and does he/she still think about the peace?
No, him lieth in ambush among the rich one."
Inhaled by those records and examples, we should bear ours
persecutions all the constantly the they damages more bitterly
us. We should not doubt that even if they is not second our
deserts, at least them they serve for the purifiers of our soul. And
from when all the things are made in agreement with the divine ordination,
does every one of true picture of command of faith him among his
the afflictions with the thought that the great goodness of God the licenses
nothing to be lived without reason and door to a good end
what can seem to happen wrongly. Because exactly ago everybody
they say men: "Thy will be made." It is great it is the consolation to everybody
in love of God in the word of the apostle when he says: "We know
what all the things work together for good to them that love God"
(Rom. viii, 28). The wise men of old man had this in mind when he said
in his/her Proverbs: "There any bad happens to the solo"
(Prov. xii, 21). From this him clearly show that whosoever grows
angry for some reason against his/her sufferings therein has it departed
from the way of the solo, because he cannot doubt that these