If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
Therefore I follow, lo, I follow on;
My cross is with me, yet not rightly worn.
It little is compar'd with Thine, I own;
Yet little is not being wrongly borne. G.
CXXXIX.
Relictis omnibus sequutus est eum. Luc. v. 28.
Quas Matthaeus opes, ad Christi jussa, reliquit;
Tum primum vere coepit habere suas.[76]
Iste malarum est usus opum bonus, unicus iste;
Esse malas homini, quas bene perdat, opes.
And he left all ... and followed Him.
To be rich, truly rich, Matthew did take
The right way, when he left all for Christ's sake.
This is the one good use of ill-got wealth;
For ill-got 'tis which, leaving, bringeth health. B. & G.
CXL.
Aedificatis sepulchra Prophetarum. Matt. xxiii. 29.