Matt.20.13 fara 34 MATTHEW V. 12—13 ness, anger, envy, negligence ; the right-handed ones, on the other hand, are self-contempt, mourning, humility, desire for righteousness, mercy, purity of thoughts, peace, fortitude; but He places each one for the cure of the other, and by these He humbles, and directs, and purifies those; and cleanses body and soul at the same time. For pride, a demon which leads the way, [the cure is] by miserable self-contempt ; for fornication, a sow which comes next, [the cure is] by the passion of the heart and constant grief; for vainglory, a thorn that pricks from all sides, and a tree without fruit, by humility, the ground and salt of all virtues; for intemperance, a burning and insatiable fire, by the desire for righteousness and justice; for Mammon, the spoiler and hater of all, by pity that is upon all ; for dejection, the beclouder of the mind and disturber of the temper, by sincerity of the thoughts, and love which is from the heart ; for envy, the source of all quarrels and disputes, by peace, the conciliator and binder of divided people; for negligence, the father of faintheartedness and indifference, by fortitude, the father and the anvil of all excellences. And He incites and instigates the hearers to the keeping of each one of them, by their beauty and by their perfection at the same time; for in the beatitude which He put at the head of each commandment there is a swect and merciful voice, which converts not penitents alone, but also sinners; but at the same time also by the reward which He attaches to the doers, binds every man in the desire for them and exhorts him to their accomplishment, as praise also rouses a man the more to add to the former things; for blessed is the complete penny which will be given by the Lord of the vineyard to those who have borne the burden and heat of the day; and the penny is the sum of the beatitudes that are promised to the diligent; and in the cight beatitudes it typifies the cightsomeness of the new world’; and in the variation of the beatitudes He offers consolation to everyone; so that although a man be insufficient for all good works, yet he may not be deprived of them all; and that from whatever distance and by whatever way every man goes to Him, the door of the kingdom of Heaven is opened before him, and He does not cut off hope. Ye are the salt of the earth; for salt possesses many powers ; it gives a taste to the insipid; it constricts and dries up dampness, the parent of slackness and putridity; and preserves perishable things from all corruption and hurt. It contracts the water of the seas; and by the sun it is further purified, and shines and glitters, and when it is hidden from the splendour of the sun, it becomes black in its colour, and its taste is spoiled, and it is useless for the condiment of victuals, and that which is so is thrown > The number 8 signifies the life of the world to come. (See Payne Smith, col. 446.)