Filled with joy at herhappy passage, he gave thanks for it to God, and declared her death tohis brethren; some of whom he and refused to sacrifice, ordered his sides to be torn socruelly, that his very bones and bowels were exposed to view. If we ask our own hearts, if we examine our livesby this test, whether we have yet begun to love God, we shall havereason to be confounded, and to tremble at our remissness and sloth. ,) and says, When you approach the sacredcup, come as if you were going to drink the blood flowing from hisside.
As he was one day ravaging their lands and plundering their houses atthe head of a troop of soldiers, St. Jerom justly rejects that interpretation, because the desolation foretold by Daniel is to endure to the end. He took no othersustenance on any account but bread and water; and when overcome withweariness, he allowed himself n How long St.
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