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    Chapter XXV.—He Explains the Fruits of the Earth (Ver. 29) of Works of Mercy.

    38. I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture reminds me of; yea, I will say it without fear. For I will speak the truth, Thou inspiring me as to what Thou willest that I should say out of these words. For by none other than Thy inspiration do I believe that I can speak the truth, since Thou art the Truth, but every man a liar.1394

    1394 Rom. iii. 4, and Ps. cxvi. 11.

    And therefore he that “speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own;”1395

    1395 John viii. 44.

    therefore that I may speak the truth, I will speak of Thine. Behold, Thou hast given unto us for food “every herb bearing seed,” which is upon the face of all the earth, “and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed.”1396

    1396 Gen. i. 29.

    Nor to us only, but to all the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and to all creeping things;1397

    1397 Ibid. ver. 30.

    but unto the fishes, and great whales, Thou hast not given these things. Now we were saying, that by these fruits of the earth works of mercy were signified and figured in an allegory, the which are provided for the necessities of this life out of the fruitful earth. Such an earth was the godly Onesiphorus, unto whose house Thou didst give mercy, because he frequently refreshed Thy Paul, and was not ashamed of his chain.1398

    1398 2 Tim. i. 16.

    This did also the brethren, and such fruit did they bear, who out of Macedonia supplied what was wanting unto him.1399

    1399 2 Cor. xi. 9.

    But how doth he grieve for certain trees, which did not afford him the fruit due unto him, when he saith, “At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.”1400

    1400 2 Tim. iv. 16.

    For these fruits are due to those who minister spiritual1401

    1401 Rationalem. An old epithet to most of the holy things. So, reasonable service, Rom. xii. 1, λογικὸν γάλα; 1 Pet. ii. 2, sincere milk. Clem. Alex. calls Baptism so, Pedag. i. 6. And in Constitut. Apost. vi. 23, the Eucharist is styled, a reasonable Sacrifice. The word was used to distinguish Christian mysteries from Jewish. Rationale est spirituale.”—W. W.

    doctrine, through their understanding of the divine mysteries; and they are due to them as men. They are due to them, too, as to the living soul, supplying itself as an example in all continency; and due unto them likewise as flying creatures, for their blessings which are multiplied upon the earth, since their sound went out into all lands.1402

    1402 Ps. xix. 4.

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