514. GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. XIV. But heresyindeed,likeEve with a woman's obstinacy,tries Eph.5,3.the affectionof faith. And the Apostle says thatwe must Heb.is fleefrom covetousness,lestentangled in the customs of the 5- . Gentiles,we be unable to come to the kingdom of Christ. 6,n. Thereforeboth he who has bought a farm isa strangertothe kingdom, and he who has chosen the yoke of the law rather than the giftof grace,and he also who excuses himself becausehe has married a wife. Aug.in It follows,And the servantreturned,and toldthesethings f?en-ai! to his Lord. AUG. Not for the sake of knowing inferior lit.C. 1.'. beings does God requiremessengers,as though He gained aught from them, forHe knows allthingsstedfastlyand un changeably. But He has messengersforour sakesand their own, because to be present with God, and stand before Him so as to consultHim about His subjects,and obey His heavenly commandments, is good for them in the orderof theirown nature. CYRIL. But with the rulersof the Jews who refusedtheir John7, call,as they themselves confessed,Have any of the rulers believedon Him? the Master of the household was wroth, as with them that deserved His indignationand anger; whence itfollows,Then themasterofthehousebeingangry,S(c. .PSEUDO-BASIL. Not thatthe passionof anger belongs to the inPs.37.Divine substance,but an operationsuch as in us iscaused by anger,iscalledthe anger and indignationof God. CYRIL. Thus it was that the master of the house is said to have been enraged with the chiefsof the Jews, and in theirstead were calledmen taken from out of the Jewish multitude; Acts2, and of weak and impotent minds. For at Peter'spreach- *l **' ing,firstindeed threethousand,then fivethousand believed, and afterwardsmuch people; whence itfollows,He saidunto His servant,Go out straightwayinto the streetsand lanes of thecity,and bringin hitherthepoor,and themaimed, and thehalt,and the blind. AMBROSE. He invitesthe poor,the weak, and the blind,to shew that weakness of body shuts out no one from the kingdom of heaven, and that he is guiltyof fewer sins who lacks the incitement to sin; or that the infirmitiesof sin are forgiventhrough the mercy of God. Therefore He sends to the streets,that from the Gre_ broaderways they may come to the narrow way. Horn.86. Because then the proud refuse to come, the poor aie