If therefore God command that a service be performed in secret, and he who serves has performed it thus ; thou therefore who hast received in secret, why dost thou proclaim openly? or thou again, why dost thou inquire? for not only dost thou roundly blame, and grumble like a fool f. (S. not a widow), and thou also givest forth curses like the heathen. Or hast thou not heard what the Scripture saith, " Everyone who blesseth shall be £9 ^'ic blessed, and every one who curseth shall be cursed "? Again in the Gospel He said, " Bless them that curse you," and again He said, "When ye go into Luke x 5 an house, say, Peace be to this house. And if the house be worthy of your Matt.x. is peace, it shall come upon it, but if it be not worthy, it shall return to you." If therefore peace return to those that have sent it, more therefore shall Ap. Con. the curse be upon him who hath launched it. For if we (S. they) who have sent it out in vain, because he against whom it was sent was not worthy to receive a curse, everyone who curseth anyone in vain curseth himself; for it is written in the Proverbs, "As the swallows and the birds Prov. fly, thus vain curses return." And again he said, that " those who send ^^ x lg forth curses are void of understanding"; for we are compared to the likeness of the bee, as the Lord said, Go to the bee, and learn from her how Prov. vi. 6 she worketh, that she doeth her work with wisdom, and from her work food 8 is offered to the rich and the poor, for she is graceful and glorious, though