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    • Chapter XII.—Ye are superior to me.
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    Chapter XII.—Ye are superior to me.

    May I enjoy you in all respects, if indeed I be worthy! For though I am bound, I am not worthy to be compared to any of you that are at liberty. I know that ye are not puffed up, for ye have Jesus Christ in yourselves. And all the more when I commend you, I know that ye cherish modesty711

    711 Literally, “are reverent.”

    of spirit; as it is written, “The righteous man is his own accuser.”712

    712 Prov. xviii. 17. (LXX).

    May I enjoy you in all respects, if indeed I be worthy! For though I am bound, I am not worthy to be compared to one of you that are at liberty. I know that ye are not puffed up, for ye have Jesus in yourselves. And all the more when I commend you, I know that ye cherish modesty713

    713 Literally, “are reverent.”

    of spirit; as it is written, “The righteous man is his own accuser;”714

    714 Prov. xviii. 17. (LXX).

    and again, “Declare thou first thine iniquities, that thou mayest be justified;”715

    715 Isa. xliii. 26.

    and again, “When ye shall have done all things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants;”716

    716 Luke xvii. 10.

    “for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”717

    717 Luke xvi. 15.

    For says [the Scripture], “God be merciful to me a sinner.”718

    718 Luke xviii. 13.

    Therefore those great ones, Abraham and Job,719

    719 Some read, “Jacob.”

    styled themselves “dust and ashes720

    720 Gen. xviii. 27; Job xxx. 19.

    before God. And David says, “Who am I before Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast glorified me hitherto?”721

    721 1 Chron. xvii. 16.

    And Moses, who was “the meekest of all men,”722

    722 Num. xii. 3.

    saith to God, “I am of a feeble voice, and of a slow tongue.”723

    723 Ex. iv. 10.

    Be ye therefore also of a humble spirit, that ye may be exalted; for “he that abaseth himself shall be exalted, and he that exalteth himself shall be abased.”724

    724 Luke xiv. 11.

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