hath said, "The spirit is ready and willing, but the flesh is weak," it Matt, is not merely ourselves whom we destroy, but also the souls of our brethren (S. + we kill along with ourselves) ; for when they see our denials, they will think that they have been taught 1 error of doctrines1, and when they are 2made captive2 we shall have to answer for them as well as for ourselves, every one of us to the Lord in the day of judgment. (S. 4- But if thou art taken and brought before the governor, and deniest thy hope in the Lord in thy holy faith, and art set free to-day, but to-morrow thou art sick with a fever, and fallest on thy bed, or thy stomach pain thee, and thou takest no food, but givest it back with severe pains, or fallest into the affliction of gripes, or of the hurt of one of thy members ; or thou sendest forth from thy bowels blood and gall by severe pains ; or thou hast a tumour in one of thy members ; and thou art cut up by the hands of doctors, and diest in afflictions and in great agonies, what will thy denial that thou hast made profit thee, O man ? for behold, thou hast caused thy soul to inherit pains and sufferings, and thou hast lost thy eternal life before God. Thou wilt burn and be tormented without rest for ever ; as the Lord hath said. " Every one who loveth his life shall lose Joimxii.