the well signified the masters of the Jews and Gentiles. For the doctors of the Jews were proud of the law which they had and did not keep, and as they were full of avarice they incited the people by word and example to seek temporal things, saying: “ Live securely, for the Messias will come and restore all things.” And the doctors of the Gentiles said: w Use the creatures that you see, for the world was made for us to enjoy.” And when man v stood so blind, as to think neither of God nor hereafter, then I, God with the Father and Holy Ghost, came into the world, and* assuming humanity, said openly: “ What God promised and Moses wrote, is fulfilled. Love, therefore, the things of heaven, for those of earth pass, and those of eternity will I give unto you.” I showed, too, the sevenfold way whereby man might be drawn away from his vanity. For I showed poverty and obedience, I taught fasts and prayers; I sometimes fled away from men, and abode alone in prayer; I endured opprobrinm, I chose toil and grief, I bore pain and contempt. In my own self did I show the way, in which my friends long walked, but now the way is broken up. The guardians sleep; those who pass delight in vanity and novelties; therefore, I rise and will not be silent. I will take away
