ashamed of the disease, makes no delay in revealing it to the
physician, and setting it forth, so that it may be cured. However
rough, however hard may be the remedy, he avoids it not, so that he
may escape death. Whatever he has that is most precious, he makes no
hesitation in giving it, if only for a little while he may put off
the death of the body. What, then, ought we to do for the death of
the soul? For this, however terrible, may be forever prevented,
without such great labor, without such great expense. The Lord seeks
us ourselves, and not what is ours. He stands in no need of our
wealth who bestows all things. For it is he to whom it is said, "My
goods are nothing unto thee." With him a man is by so much the
greater, as, in his own judgment, he is less. With him a man is as
much the more righteous, as in his own opinion he is the more
guilty. In his eyes we hide our faults all the more, the more that
here by confession we manifest them.


THE LAST ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM

"He came unto his own, and his own received him not." That is, he
entered Jerusalem. Yet now he entered, not Jerusalem, which by
interpretation is "The Vision of Peace," but the home of
tyranny. For now the elders of the city have so manifestly conspired
against him, that he can no longer find a place of refuge within
it. This is not to be attributed to his helplessness but to his
patience. He could be harbored there securely, seeing that no one
can do him harm by violence, and that he has the power to incline
the hearts of men whither he wills. For in that same city he freely
did whatever he willed to do; and when he sent his disciples
thither, and commanded them that they should loose the ass and the