For where he saith, "He that forsaketh not all that
ever he hath, cannot be my disciple," he declareth well, by other
words of his own in the selfsame place a little before, what he
meaneth. For there saith he more, "He that cometh to me, and
hateth not his father, and his mother, and his wife, and his
children, and his brethren, and his sisters, yea and his own life
too, cannot be my disciple." Here meaneth our Saviour Christ that
no one can be his disciple unless he love him so far above all his
kin, and above his own life, too, that for the love of him, rather
than forsake him, he shall forsake them all. And so meaneth he by
those other words that whosoever do not so renounce and forsake
all that ever he hath in his own heart and affection, so that he
will lose it all and let it go every whit, rather than deadly to
displease God with the reserving of any one part of it, he cannot
be Christ's disciple. For Christ teacheth us to love God above all
things, and he loveth not God above all things who, contrary to
God's pleasure, keepeth anything that he hath. For he showeth
himself to set more by that thing than by God, since he is better
content to lose God than it. But, as I said, to give away all, or
that no man should be rich or have substance, that find I no
commandment of.
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