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…And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? (1 Cor. 4:7).
Why, then, I ask, do you glory in your goods as if they were your own instead of giving thanks to the Giver for His gifts? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? You have not known God by reason of your virtue, but God has known you by reason of His goodness. “But now after you have known God,” says the Apostle, “or rather are known by God” (Gal. 4:9). You did not apprehend Christ because of your virtue, Christ apprehended you by His coming. “I press on,” says the Apostle, “that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me” (Phil. 3:12). “You have not chosen Me,” says the Lord, “but I have chosen you” (Jn. 15:16)…Do you think you have done something good? Give thanks to God, and do not exalt yourself above your neighbor. Take care not repeat the fall of the Devil. He, in exalting himself above man, fell at the hands of Man and is delivered up to be trodden on as a footstool to Him who has been under His heel. Another example is the fall of the Israelites. Although they vaunted their superiority over Gentiles, whom they regarded as unclean, they themselves became, in reality, unclean, but the Gentiles were made clean. – St. Bail
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