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Translated by Frederick Crombie.
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Page 49
6. Now, that it is our business to live virtuously, and that God asks this of us, as not being dependent on Him nor on any other, nor, as some think, upon fate, but as being our own doing, the prophet Micah will prove when he says: "If it has been announced to thee, O man, what is good, or what does the Lord require of thee, except to do justice and to love mercy?" [2400] Moses also: "I have placed before thy face the way of life, and the way of death: choose what is good, and walk in it." [2401] Isaiah too: "If you are willing, and hear me, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye be unwilling, and will not hear me, the sword will consume you: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." [2402] And in the Psalms: "If My people had heard Me, and Israel had walked in My ways, I would have humbled their enemies to nothing, and laid My hand upon those that afflicted them;" [2403] showing that it was in the power of His people to hear and to walk in the ways of God. And the Saviour also, when He commands, "But I say unto you, Resist not evil;" [2404] and, "Whosoever shall be angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment;" [2405] and, "Whosoever shall look upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart;" [2406] and by any other commandment which He gives, declares that it lies with ourselves to keep what is enjoined, and that we shall reasonably [2407] be liable to condemnation if we transgress.
[2400] Mic. vi. 8.
[2401] Cf. Deut. xxx. 15, 16, cf. 19.
[2402] Isa. i. 19, 20.
[2403] Ps. lxxxi. 13, 14.
[2404] Matt. v. 39.
[2405] Matt. v. 22.
[2406] Matt. v. 28.
[2407] eulogos.
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