are cast into outer darkness, and there they shall have weeping and gnashing of teeth ; for He has said that " every one who loveth his life more than Me is not worthy of Me.") But let us be diligent, my brethren, to commend our lives to the Lord God; and if a man be found worthy f. 6ob of martyrdom, let him receive it with joy, that he is thought worthy of this crown, and that his exit from this world should be by martyrdom ; for our Saviour has said that "there is no disciple that is above his Lord, but let Lukevi. *o every one be perfect like his Lord." (S. + Our Lord therefore chose all these sufferings in order to save us ; He accepted to be beaten and blasphemed against, and His face spat upon, and to drink vinegar and myrrh, and at length He endured even to being hanged upon the cross.) We therefore who are His disciples, let us be imitators of Him ; for if He endured everything for our sakes (S. even to sufferings) how much ought not we to bear for