[15]Your cause, too, is at stake.
[16]By his own impulse and on his own responsibility.
[17]Cf. I Cor. 10, 12.
[18]The above, with the omissions indicated, constitutes about one-third of "Fear and Trembling."
[PREPARATION FOR A CHRISTIAN LIFE]
I[1]
"COME HITHER UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST." (MATTHEW 11, 28.)
THE INVITATION
"Come hither!"—It is not at all strange if he who is in danger and needs help—speedy, immediate help, perhaps—it is not strange if he cries out: "come hither"! Nor it is strange that a quack cries his wares: "come hither, I cure all maladies"; alas, for in the case of the quack it is only too true that it is the physician who has need of the sick. "Come hither all ye who at extortionate prices can pay for the cure—or at any rate for the medicine; here is physic for everybody—who can pay; come hither!"