But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And not even this shamed them, but the more long-suffering He showed, so much the more were they hardened. For not for press of business, but from making light of it, they did not come.
How then do some bring forward marriages, others yokes of oxen? These things surely are of want of leisure.
By no means, for when spiritual things call us, there is no press of business that has the power of necessity.
