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‘Friends, I did indeed know that this would soonhappen, so that Satan may complete his work. However, theones who fled to the heathens could also have found refugehere in Galilee, and those who cursed My name in order to savetheir earthly possessions would have done better to free themselvesfrom all their worldly ties than by cursing My name to safeguardtheir possessions to which eternal death is attached. [2]How hard it will be for a person with many things to part withthem one day. And how easy will he depart from the world whodid not possess any goods from its poisonous bosom and sufferedpersecution for the sake of My name. The latter scorns the worldand will surely not be sorry when, clearly seeing it as it is, he willbe leaving this place of darkness to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. [3]See, as the gold is proved in the fire only thereby gaining itsgreat value, thus it must be with you who truly wish to be Mydisciples and followers. My Kingdom for which all of us are nowworking is not of this world, but of that vast, eternal, everlastingone which follows this earthly, material, short trial life. [4]Therefore, I do not give you peace for this world, but thesword, for you have to attain to the freedom of eternal life throughthe battle with the world and all it offers you. [5]For My Kingdom suffers force, and those who do not seize itforcibly will not enter it.[6]It is of course an easy matter, in a safely walled city and wellprovided for life, to stand fast as My disciples and teach virtue tothe lambs, watering them with clean water. Verily, this does nottake much. But quite another thing it is to tame lions, tigers andpanthers, transforming them into useful animals. For this, of course, more cleverness, courage, strength and endurance arerequired than for taming sheep. [7]Wherefore you need to take this phenomenon in Sychar as you
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