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Mk. viii. 32.

Jesus said: "The world loves its own, and hates God's people. Therefore men of the world-priests, preachers, officials will harass those who shall fulfil the will of the Father. And I am going to Jerusalem, and shall be persecuted and killed. But my spirit cannot be killed, but will remain alive.'

Having heard that Jesus would be tortured and killed in Jerusalem, Peter was sad, and took Jesus by the hand, and said to him: "If so, 33. then you had better not go to Jerusalem." Then Jesus said to Peter: "Do not say this. What you say is temptation. If you fear tortures and death for me, this means that you are not thinking of that which is godly, of the spirit, but are thinking of what is worldly."

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And having called the people and his disciples, Jesus said: "He who wishes to live according to my teaching, let him forsake his fleshly life, and let him be ready for all fleshly suffering; because he who fears for his fleshly life, shall destroy the true life; he who despises the fleshly life, shall save the true life."

And they did not understand this, and certain materialists coming, he explained to all what is the meaning of the true life and the awakening from death.

The materialists said that after the fleshly 24. death there is no longer any life. They asked: “How can all rise from the dead? If all were to rise, then in rising they could in no way have 25. life together. For instance, there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died. The wife was taken by the second brother and 28. he died, and she was taken by the third, who also died, and so on unto the seventh. Well now, how shall these seven brothers live with one wife if all arise from the dead?"

Lk. xx. 34.

Jesus said to them: "You either purposely confuse things, or you do not understand what

the awakening to life is. Men in this present

life marry. But they who shall earn everlast- Lk. xx. 35. ing life, and the awakening from death, do not marry. And that because they can no longer

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die, but are united with the Father. In your Mt. xxii. 31. writings, it is said that God said: 'I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' And this was said when Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died from among men. It follows, that they who have died from among men are alive to God. If God is, and God does not die, then they who are with God are always alive. The awakening from death is, to live in the will of the Father. For the Father, there is no time; therefore in fulfilling the will of the Father, in joining Him, man departs from time and death."

When they heard this, the orthodox no longer knew what to devise to compel Jesus to hold his tongue; and together they began to question Jesus. And one of the orthodox said: "Teacher, what, in your opinion, is the chief commandment in the whole law?"

The orthodox thought that Jesus would get confused in the answer about the law. But Jesus said: "It is, to love the Lord with all one's soul, in whose power we are. From it the second commandment follows, which is, to love one's neighbor. Because the same Lord is in him. And this is the substance of all that is written in all your books."

And Jesus said further: "In your opinion, what is Christ? Is he some one's son?" They said: "In our opinion, Christ is the son of David." Then he said to them: "How, then, does David call Christ his Lord? Christ is neither son of David, nor any one's son after the flesh; but Christ is that same Lord, our Ruler, whom we know in ourselves as our life. Christ is that understanding which is in us."

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of orthodox teachers. And beware of the leaven of the materialists and of the leaven of the government. But most of all, beware of the leaven of the self-styled 'orthodox,' because in them is the chief stumbling-block."

And when the people understood of what he 46. was speaking, he repeated: "Most of all, beware of the teaching of the scholars, of the Mt. xxiii. 2. self-called 'orthodox.' Beware of them, be

cause they have taken the place of the prophets who declared the will of God to the people. They have perversely assumed authority to preach to the people the will of God. They preach words, and do nothing. And the result 3. is that they no more than say: 'Do this and that.' And there is no further result, because 4. they do nothing good, but only talk. And they

tell people to do what is impossible to be done, 5. and they themselves do nothing. They only labor to keep the teaching in their own hands; and with this aim they strive to appear imposing; they dress themselves up and exalt them8. selves. Know, therefore, that no one should 13. call himself teacher and leader. But the selfstyled orthodox are called teachers, and by this very thing they hinder you from entering into the kingdom of heaven, where they themselves do not enter. These orthodox think that people may be brought to God by exterior rites 16. and pledges. Like blind men, they do not see that the outside show means nothing; that all 23. depends upon the soul of man. They do the easiest thing, the external thing; that which is needful and difficult- love, compassion, truth

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they leave undone. It suffices them to be only outwardly in the law, and to bring others 27. outwardly to the law. And therefore they, like

painted coffins, outwardly look clean, but are 30. an abomination within. They outwardly honor 31. the holy martyrs. But in very deed they are the

and their consciences smote them; and they who were in front sought to get behind the others, and all went away. And Jesus re- Ja. viii. 1o. mained alone with the woman. He looked round, and saw that there was none else. "Well," said he to the woman, "has no one condemned you?" She said: "No one." Then he said: "And I do not condemn you. Go, and henceforth sin no more."

Beware. Temptation against the fifth commandment is the temptation for men to consider themselves bound to do good only to their countrymen, and to consider foreigners as enemies.

A teacher of the law wished to try Jesus, Lk. and said: "What am I to do in order to receive the true life?" Jesus said: "You know, - love your Father, God, and him who is your brother through your Father, God; of whatever country he may be." And the teacher of the law said: "This would be well, if there were not different nations; but as it is, how am I to love the enemies of my own people?"

And Jesus said: "There was a Jew who fell into misfortune. He was beaten, robbed, and abandoned on the road. A Jewish priest went by, glanced at the wounded man, and went on. A Jewish Levite passed, looked at the wounded man, and also went by. But there came a man of a foreign, hostile nation, a Samaritan. This Samaritan saw the Jew, and did not think of the fact that Jews have no esteem for the Samaritans, but pitied the poor Jew. He washed and bound his wounds, and carried him on his ass to an inn, paid money for him to the innkeeper, and promised to come again to pay for him. Thus shall you also behave toward foreign nations, toward those who hold you of no account and ruin you. Then you will receive true life."

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Mt. xvi. 21.

Mk. viii. 32.

Jesus said: "The world loves its own, and hates God's people. Therefore men of the world-priests, preachers, officials will harass those who shall fulfil the will of the Father. And I am going to Jerusalem, and shall be persecuted and killed. But my spirit cannot be killed, but will remain alive.'

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Having heard that Jesus would be tortured and killed in Jerusalem, Peter was sad, and took Jesus by the hand, and said to him: "If so, 33. then you had better not go to Jerusalem." Then Jesus said to Peter: "Do not say this. What you say is temptation. If you fear tortures and death for me, this means that you are not thinking of that which is godly, of the spirit, but are thinking of what is worldly."

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Mt. xxii. 23.

And having called the people and his disciples, Jesus said: "He who wishes to live according to my teaching, let him forsake his fleshly life, and let him be ready for all fleshly suffering; because he who fears for his fleshly life, shall destroy the true life; he who despises the fleshly life, shall save the true life."

And they did not understand this, and certain materialists coming, he explained to all what is the meaning of the true life and the awakening from death.

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The materialists said that after the fleshly 24. death there is no longer any life. They asked: 'How can all rise from the dead? If all were to rise, then in rising they could in no way have 25. life together. For instance, there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died. The wife was taken by the second brother and 28. he died, and she was taken by the third, who also died, and so on unto the seventh. Well now, how shall these seven brothers live with one wife if all arise from the dead?"

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Jesus said to them: "You either purposely confuse things, or you do not understand what