For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
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Pseudo-Augustine
AD 1400
Beloved, what has been celebrated in you? What has been accomplished this night in your regard that did not take place on previous nights? In what way have you been brought, each of you, from hidden places, to be shown before all the church? Down there, after bowing your head, which was wrongly exalted before, was your examination celebrated, with the humiliation of feet placed in sackcloth? Was the proud devil rooted out of you when the humble and most high Christ was invoked over you? You were all, therefore, humble, and you implored humbly, praying, singing and saying, "Test me, Lord, and know my thoughts." He has tested, he has examined, he has touched the hearts of his servants with fear. He has cast out the devil by his power and freed his family from his dominion. Here the poor and the rich have not been treated differently, or the master and the slave. In fact, "all enter life in the same way." If this is true for this fragile, fleeting life, how much more will it be true for the life that is immortal and eternal? - "Sermon on the Creed 1.1"
