He was careful to employ his wholetime in the exercises of piety, and the study of the holy scriptures andfathers. [2] His brother was deprived of hisplace, one of the first dignities of the kingdom. God glorified him by many miracles; but thegreatest seems to have been the powerful example of his life. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The idol was of so enormous a size, that itsarms being extended, they reached to the opposite walls of the temple:it Heused all his efforts to gain the patriarch, and sent a principal officerto him for that purpose, accusing his wife of a plot to poison him. The more we share in the suffering life ofChrist, the greater share we inherit in his spirit, and in the fruit ofhis death. We are poor, wretched sinners, who, terrified at the rigorof the divine justice, still hope, with trembling, by this means, tofind mercy from our Lord Jesus Christ in the day of his judgment.
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