8. Not only himself, but the clergy with him in the apse.
284 SAINT A UGUSTINE - SERMONS than himself, he would give it to us; but there isn't anything better than God, and Christ is God.
Listen: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; this was in the beginning with God (Jn 1:1-2). Who can grasp that? Who can work it out? Who can observe it, who contemplate it, who think fitting thoughts about it? Nobody. The Word became flesh, and dwelt amongst us (Jn 1:14). What he's calling you to is to work as a laborer. The Word became flesh. He's calling you himself; the Word will be your praise, the Lord will be your wages.
NOTES
1. See Acts 3:17-18. 2. See Col 2:14.
3. At Golgotha, witnessing the crucifixion. 4. See Eph 1:4. 5. At the beginning of the sermon he said it signified our present life, with all its pains and troubles. Here he is shifting his ground, and referring it to the "old life" of sin; and I take him really to mean that the passion signified our death to the old life, in line, for example, with Gal 2:19; 6:14; Col 2:14.
6. See 2 Pt 2:22. 7. See Mt 20:1-16. 8. Not only himself, but the clergy with him in the apse.
9. Reading Quisquis hominum instead of... hominenv, "Anyone who hires a man as a worker." 10. A familiar little jingle: Esurientes reficit, sed ipse non deficit.