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Phil. iii. 8.

  • dom of Heaven."[1] They are

worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven who have freely renounced all Earthly Things out of Love and Desire for Heavenly Things. He must needs live by Heavenly Things who takes no thought of Earthly Things, and counts them but as dung: even in this our Exile shall he feed on

  1. In contradistinction, e.g. to the Meek who shall possess the Land (Matt. v. 4). Only the persecuted for Justice's sake have the same immediate privilege as the Poor in Spirit (Matt. v. 10). We shall see later on that Persecution is the noblest and most helpful of all the Lady Poverty's sisters.