because the proud can never get to heaven.
Christ cried in His preaching, and said to all men,
'Penitentiam agite, adpropinquabit enim regnum caelorum'; that is in English,
'Work deeds of penance for your misdeeds,
for behold the kingdom of Heaven draweth near.'
Christ then went about throughout all the Jewish cities,
preaching the Gospel, and enlightened the blind,
and healed all sicknesses and all diseases.
His fame spread then to the land of Syria,
and they brought the sick from far and near,
diversely afflicted, and lunatics, and men possessed,
and likewise the bedridden, and brought [them] to the Saviour,
and He healed them all, for that He is the Healer.
These same powers He gave to His great apostles,
that they might heal, in the name of Jesus,
all sicknesses, and also raise the dead,
and cleanse the lepers, even as Christ Himself did.
There were twelve apostles who abode with him,
and two and seventy He chose Him as preachers,
who went, by two and two, before Him everywhere.
These four and eighty who followed the Saviour,
are the foundations in God's Church,
and the foremost preachers, and they wrote our books,
even as they had learned from their master Christ,
and their lore came to the uttermost lands.
Then it befell one day as the Saviour journeyed,
that a certain man said to Him, ' I will go with Thee,
and follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest.'
