washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that as I have gone to you, so you do also. (John xiii. 3-15.)
Why is earth and ashes proud? (Ecclus. x. 9.)
For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (1 Cor. v. 7.)
But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (James iv. 6.)
For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of en, and in habit found as a man. He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given Him a Name which is above all names: that in the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father. (Philipp. ii. 8 - 11.)
DEATH
The Vanity and Uncertainty of Life
HE KNOWETH our frame. He remembereth that we are dust. Man’s days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be; and he shall know his place no more. (Ps. cii. 14-16.)
A thousand years in Thy sight are as yesterday which past, and as a watch in the night. As things that are counted nothing shall their years be. In the morning man shall grow up like grass, in the morning he shall flourish and pass away; in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither. (Ps. lxxxix. 4-6.)
