52 And he who conquers carnal self, and follows me through Christ shall have a hundred fold of that which is the wealth of life on earth, and in the world to come, eternal life.
CHAPTER 143.
Righteousness in rewards. Jesus relates the parable of the husbandman and the laborers. Makes known the divine law of divorce. The mystery of marriage.
The Lord was standing by the sea; the multitudes were there and one stood forth and said,
2 Does God bestow rewards as men bestow rewards, for what is done?
3 And Jesus said, Men never know what other men have done, this life is such a seeming life.
4 One man may seem to do a mighty work, and be adjudged by men as worthy of a great reward.
5 Another man may seem to be a failure in the harvest fields of life, and be dishonored in the face of men.
6 Men do not know the hearts of men; God only knows the hearts of men, and when the day is done he may reward with life the man who fell beneath the burdens of the day, and turn away the man who was the idol of the hearts of men.
7 And then he spoke a parable; he said, The kingdom of the soul is like a man who had a vast estate,