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For if now, when a kingdom is looked for, and a resurrection is hoped for, and the unspeakable good things, and though conscious to themselves of ten thousand evils, and having so many examples, and partaking of so great a philosophy—if some men lose a little gold, and that too having often seized it by rapine, they think life not worth living; when no wife presses upon them, no children are taken away, no friends reproach them, no servants trample on them, but there are many to console them, some by words and some by deeds—
of how many crowns would that man be worthy, who saw the fruits gathered by righteous labours snatched away carelessly and by mere chance, and after all those things endured ten thousand snowstorms of temptations, and through all remained unmoved, and offered to the Master the fitting thanksgiving for these things? For even if no one should mention any of the rest, the words of his wife alone were enough to shatter even a rock.
She makes no mention of his goods, nor of the camels and flocks and herds (for she knew her husband's philosophy in these matters), but rather of that which was more burdensome than all these—I mean the children—and she enlarges the tragedy, and adds her own touches. And if to men who are in prosperity and suffer nothing unpleasant, wives have often persuaded much—
consider how vigorous was that soul which, when she came against it with so many weapons, thrust her back, and trampled underfoot the two most tyrannical passions, desire and pity.
That noble Joseph, at any rate, restrained the most tyrannical of pleasures, and repelled that barbarian woman who brought against him ten thousand contrivances;
yet he did not restrain his tears, but on seeing the brothers who had wronged him, he was inflamed with feeling, and quickly casting off the mask, he disclosed the drama.
But when it is a wife, and she speaks piteous things, and has the moment working with her, and the wounds, and the bruises, and the ten thousand waves of calamities—how could one not justly declare that soul, which suffered nothing under so great a tempest, to be firmer than any adamant? Permit me to say with boldness that this blessed man was, if not greater than the apostles, yet certainly not less.
and this remedy was so sufficient to raise them up day by day, that the Master set it everywhere before them, saying, 'For my sake,' and 'On account of me,' and, 'If they called me, the master of the house, Beelzebub.'
seeing that, brought up in much luxury—not from among fishermen and tax-collectors and those who had lived in mean estate, but having enjoyed so great honour—he suffered all that he suffered.
And that which seemed most burdensome in the case of the apostles, this same thing he too endured: being hated by friends, by servants, by enemies, by those to whom he had done good;
When at any rate he heard, 'Do you think that I have dealt with you for any other reason than that you might be shown to be righteous?'—consider how immediately, at a bare word, he took breath again;
This manliness, then, and this forbearance let us also emulate—we who live after the law and grace—of him who lived before the law and grace, that we too may be able to share with him the eternal tabernacles;
which may it be granted to us all to attain, by the grace and lovingkindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and might unto the ages of ages. Amen.