35. ili. 151, ‘Jesus said, Take not the world for your lord, lest it take you for its slaves. Lay up your treasure with Him who will not waste it,’ ete.
36. iii. 151, ‘Jesus said, Ye company of apostles, verily I have overthrown the world upon her face for you; raise her not up after me. It is a mark of the foulness of this world that God is disobeyed therein, and that the future world cannot be at- tained save by abandonment of this; pass then through this world, and linger not there; and know that the root of every sin is love of the world. Often does the pleasure of an hour bestow on him that enjoys it long pain.’
37. iii. 151, “He said again, I have laid the world low for you, and ye are seated upon its back. Let not kings and women dispute with you the posses- sion of it. Dispute not the world with kings, for they will not offer you what you have abandoned and their world; but guard against women by fasting and prayer.’
38. ili. 151, ‘He said again, The world seeks and is sought. If a man seeks the next world, this world seeks him till he obtain therein his full sus- tenance; but if a man seeks this world, the next world seeks him till death comes and takes him by the throat.’
39. iii. 152, ‘Jesus said, The love of this world and of the next cannot agree in a believer’s heart, even ag fire and water cannot agree in a single vessel.’
40. ili. 153, ‘Jesus being asked, Why dost thou not take a house to shelter thee? said, The rags of those that were before us are good enough for us.’
41, iii. 153, ‘It is recorded that one day Jesus was sore troubled by the rain and thunder and lightning, and began to seek a shelter. His eye fell upon a tent hard by ; but when he came there, finding a woman inside, he turned away from it. Then he noticed a cave in a mountain; but when he came thither, there was a lion there. Laying his hand upon the lion, he said, My God, Thou hast given each thing a resting-place, but to me thou has given none! Then God revealed to him, Thy resting-place is in the abode of my mercy : that I may wed thee on the day of judgment. . . and make thy bridal feast four thousand years, of which each day is like a lifetime in this present world; and that I may command a herald to pro- claim, Where are they that fast in this world? Come to the bridal feast of Jesus, who fasted in this world !’
42. iii. 153, ‘Jesus said, Woe unto him who hath this world, seeing that he must die and leave it, and all that is in it! It deceives him, yet he trusts in it; he relies upon it, and it betrays him. Woe unto them that are deceived! When they shall be shown what they loathe, and shall be abandoned by what they love; and shall be over- taken by that wherewith they are threatened ! Woe unto him whose care is the world, and whose work is sin; seeing that one day he shall be dis- graced by his sin.’ .
43. iii. 153, ‘Jesus said, Who is it that builds upon the waves of the sea? Such is the world ; take it not for your resting-place.’
44, iii. 153, ‘Some said to Jesus, Teach us some doctrine for which God will love us. Jesus said, Hate the world, and God will love you.’
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45. ili. 154, ‘Jesus said, Ye company of apostles, be satisfied with a humble portion in this world, so your taith be whole; even as the people of this world are satisfied with a humble portion in faith, 80 this world be secured to them.’
46. ili. 154, ‘Jesus said, O thou that seekest this world to do charity, to abandon it were more chari- table.’
47, iii. 159, ‘Jesus used to say, My condiment is hunger, my inner garment fear, and my outer gar- ment wool. I warm myself in winter in the sun ; my candle is the moon ; my mounts are my feet my food and dainties are the fruits of the earth neither at eventide nor in the morning have I aught in my possession, yet no one on earth is richer than I.’
48. iii. 161, ‘The world was revealed unto Jesus in the form of an old woman with broken teeth, with all sorts of ornaments upon her. He said to her, How many husbands hast thou had? She said, I cannot count them. He said, Hast thou survived them all, or did they all divorce thee? She said, Nay, I have slain them all. Jesus said, Woe unto thy remaining husbands! Why do they not take warning by thy former husbands? Thou hast destroyed them one after another, and yet they are not on their guard against thee.’
The following two Sayings are quoted by Levinus Warnerus, in notes to his Centuria proverbiorum Persicorum, Lugd. Batav. 1644, p. 30f. (see Fab- ricius, Cod. apocr. NT, iii. p. 394 f.) :-—
49. ‘Jesus, son of Mary (to whom be peace), said, Whoso craves wealth is like a man who drinks gea-water ; the more he drinks, the more he increases his thirst, and he ceases not to drink until he perishes.’