Because narrow is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But seeing He declares below, “My yoke is pleasant, and my burden light,” howis it that He says here that the way is strait and narrow? Even here He teaches that it is light and pleasant; for here is a way and a gate as that other, which is called the wide and broad, has also a way and a gate. Let us not therefore be sad when many sorrows befall us here, for the way is strait, but not the city; therefore neither need we look for rest here, nor expect any thing of sorrow there. When He says, “Few there be that find it,” He points to the sluggishness of the many, and instructs His hearers not to look to the prosperity of the many, butto the toils of the few.
