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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
I will not only take from you your burden, but will satisfy you with inward refreshment.
We must learn then from our Saviour to be meek in temper, and lowly in mind; let us hurt none, let us despise none, and the virtues which we have shown indeed let us retain in our heart.
But how is Christ’s yoke pleasant, seeing it was said above, “Narrow is the way which leadeth unto life?” That which is entered upon by a narrow entrance is in process of time made broad by the unspeakable sweetness of love. But the Holy Spirit was there who, as the outward man decayed, renewed the inward man day by day, and giving a foretaste of spiritual rest in the rich pleasures of God in the hope of blessedness to come, smoothed all that seemed rough, lightened all that was heavy. Men suffer amputations and burnings, that at the price of sharper pain they may be delivered from torments less but more lasting, as boils or swellinga.What storms and dangers will not merchants undergo that they may acquire perishing riches? Even those who love not riches endure the same hardships; but those that love them endure the same, but to the m they are not hardships. For love makes right easy, and almost nought all things however dreadful and monstrous. How much more easily then does love do that for true happiness, which avarice does for misery as far as it can?
