colossians 3:17 object lesson

In the first seventeen verses of the third chapter, Paul has described that those who truly belong to the Lord are those whose lives are hidden in Christ. For the sake of Christ (Mark 9:41).3. Love. cast a holy reverence round a sick room when we minister to Jesus? The labourer working under the useful light and genial warmth does not lose his time and dazzle his sight in gazing on the sun, but plies his arm with his eye fixed on his work, and so uses for its intended purpose the light God has bestowed. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. [1924] St. 1. The faithful neither rejoice, nor speak, nor act, but in the name of God but here it is required that our whole life be referred to the name of Christ. These words may be taken as an independent precept (Ephesians 5:20) or a reason for the preceding rule, a title under which we ought to do all things in the name of Christ, so that our whole life may be an act of gratitude through Christ, which is to be preferred.1. Thanksgiving is one of the most necessary and universal offices of a Christian. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. Remember what we are to God through creation, providence, and grace.2. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. A large proportion of the infidelity of the working classes is due to this unreal teaching. The peace of God. To Dominicus. The church is full of half dead people who have been trying, like poor Nero, to slay themselves for years, and have not had the courage to strike the fatal blow. While there are many falsehoods, Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 61: 1915, Some General Uses. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. If they indeed have risen with him, he argues that they should leave the grave of iniquity and the graveclothes of their sins behind, and act as those who are endowed with that superior life, which accounts sin to be death and corruption. THE SACREDNESS OF COMMON LIFE AND LABOUR. (3) Owing to a mixture of these we find Christian precept and practice widely sundered. [1923] Surely it was a wholesome alarm that believers might not think that they could be saved on account of their faith alone, even although they should live in these evils: the Apostle James with most clear speech crying out against that notion, and saying, "If any say that he have faith, and have not works, shall his faith be able to save him?" Application:1. A. Then was it a sacred or a secular work to write "Paradise Lost," Wordsworth's "Excursion," or Cowper's "Task"? And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. A. 2. 2 Tim. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Wilkinson, D. D.)Doing all to the Lord JesusE B. Pusey, D. D.All have felt at times a painful void after absorption in active duty. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12).2. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Write Colossians 3:17. What people hate is being in earnest at all, and so they do not wish to pray for the grace of God lest they should have to be at the pains of using it. International Bible Lessons. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. "Whatsoever," etc. We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. A. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. On the contrary, great love shows itself most in little acts. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. He shows where we should seek Christ.5. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. If it could be shown that its requirements were unreal, its statements exaggerated, its views of attainment unreason. Be thine own judge? The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. Such an object is consciously present when he chooses to reflect on it, but day by day in the toil and struggle he is not ever thinking of it, but he is pursuing it. Inscribed on our hearts are reasons which must secure obedience. Possible to eat and drink to the glory of God.II. I want to emphasize that word "all." De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. Nothing is too small to be done for one deeply loved, and nothing but deep love will do unweariedly all little things to please whom it loves. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. Daille. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. iii 15. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." the best one has been left for you." THY REMEDY. (b) They are seldom loudly professed, so seldom that a man professing loudly a given motive arouses suspicion that he is acting on some other, and only using this as a blind. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. Christ is all to us that we make Him to be. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. What is it that makes our public services in church so frequently cold and spiritless? The reason is simply this, that their services are being offered in the wrong name. Stewart. Here is the sum of religion. 3). MY devout hearers! (Preacher's Analyst. 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. To do all by His strength (Acts 4:6-7, 10; 1 Samuel 17:45; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9). The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it.II. (2) Observe how such motives act. (1) Nothing is more common than a man with a powerful motive which rules his whole life gain, ambition, love of family, science, art, victory, the exercise of an energetic nature. 1 Colossians 3:12-17 "Now What?Love! "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. save that lest they should not think that they did those evils and lived in them with impunity on this account, because their faith set them free from wrath, which cometh upon the sons of unbelief, doing these things, and living in them without faith. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. A. Here, as in nature, the deepest is the stillest; but by this very stillness all who are observant know its depth. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." (1) Nothing is more common than a man with a powerful motive which rules his whole life gain, ambition, love of family, science, art, victory, the exercise of an energetic nature. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. But it is necessary that we have this deposition so formed in our hearts, that when circumstances allow us to think of Christ our souls may lean that way as being habituated to it.II. gladness to alms-giving to give to Jesus? The labourer working under the useful light and genial warmth does not lose his time and dazzle his sight in gazing on the sun, but plies his arm with his eye fixed on his work, and so uses for its intended purpose the light God has bestowed. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. It is to them a mere night of stars to wonder and gaze at, not a sun to light them to their daily work, and warm their hearts with love. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. TEXT: COL. iii. It is this that gives them the right and title they have in Christian morality. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. These words are a rebuke (1) to those who do nothing in Christ's name;(2) to those who glory in the name of men, as of churches or of saints;(3) to those professors who dishonour the name under which they profess to live. 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. II. We take it for granted and so forget it.1. It is sufficient that we frequently and ordinarily make this application of mind. Works that are the same as to external action are good in one and bad in another. To Dominicus. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadWhat have I to do with Idols?MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. Very many of those prayers are like letters with no name and address upon them, which never reach their destination. IIIWhat the Scriptures Principally Teach: the Ruin and Recovery of Man. All our prayer and praises must be offered in the name of the Lord Jesus. Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? Are they evermore in his view and present to his thoughts? (a) As to their inward influence on the man himself. THE TEXT IS A REMEDY FOR UNREALITY IN RELIGION.1. He infers holiness from this also. Do you like to take walks? 3. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)The essence of fieryD. Two clear drinking glasses, either plastic or glass. It is through Christ that life is worthy of the name of life. This is the only religious view of life.IV. When thou hast learned to do all things to Jesus, it will shed pleasure over all dull things, softness over hard things, peace over trial. (Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 1:12). Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. What have we to know, but what God hath revealed of himself to us? All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadWhat have I to do with Idols?MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. Paul here clearly gives to Christ the whole of life. Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. (2) The name of God is taken for the power, authority, and will of God (Deuteronomy 18:19; 2 Kings 2:24; Psalm 20:7; Psalm 89:16, 24; 1 Samuel 17:45; 2 Chronicles 14:11). (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. Christian families, founded on the holy bond of marriage, are appointed, in the divine order of things, to be the nurseries of the future generation. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. One or two of the world's heroes and sages have won wide admiration and respect, but who has laid his hand on so many hearts and touched for good so many lives? Recur to the motive of the text. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." A Member of the Grace Advance Fellowship of Churches. Or is not their influence for the most part rather a constraining power of which he is unconscious, rather than a stimulus carried on by conscious effort? All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadWhat have I to do with Idols?MUCH is said in reproof of Ephraim by the prophet Hosea. For when Adam and Eve, being created after God's own image, and placed in Paradise, that they and their posterity might live in a blessed state of life immortal, having dominion over all earthly creatures, and only restrained from the fruit of one tree, as a sign Lewis BaylyThe Practice of Piety, Christ all and in All. Or hast thou done anything for man's praise, feeling that the eye whose praise thou prizedst was upon thee? 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye: 14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. "If Ye Then be Risen" (Col. Iii. Will not work be done carelessly? Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that they lose not recollection of their nature, in which they are constituted on an equality with servants. J. W. Buxton, M. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. Whether you do or not, let me tell you in a few words, what I seem to myself to have learned concerning that peace. The angry, sinful word again and again escapes, and the thought of God at best but follows it. Colossians 3:14 (2) Observe how such motives act. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. It is worth while to do so. The stress lies on "the name of the Lord Jesus.". Colossians 3:12-17. where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory.(T. Text: Colossians 3, 1-7. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. "Whatsoever ye do," etc., as one bearing His name, in the might of His name, and to its glory. AugustineOn Continence"But Now do Ye Also," Saith He, "Put Down All31. IIRisen with Christ'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Sunday, but not other six days. (2) Is it not an outrage to require that saints should share this honour with Christ as Rome does? save that lest they should not think that they did those evils and lived in them with impunity on this account, because their faith set them free from wrath, which cometh upon the sons of unbelief, doing these things, and living in them without faith. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. Again Jehovah said: "Ephraim is like a cake not turned." Faith and Love Towards Christ. For when Adam and Eve, being created after God's own image, and placed in Paradise, that they and their posterity might live in a blessed state of life immortal, having dominion over all earthly creatures, and only restrained from the fruit of one tree, as a sign Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyChrist all and in All. Again, is it a sacred or a secular work when a young girl, under a deep sense of duty, consecrates her life to attendance upon a suffering mother? Where, then, is there any room for dependence on God even with prayer for protection and blessing, since the feeling assumes that they will be granted without any prayer at all.2. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. 3. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. act what we know in our souls, that we can do nothing good without God. By Jesus this gratitude is to be rendered. November 8, 1874. (5) There are certain solemn times when this great motive is and must be expressly recognized; but when the whole man is possessed with the love of Christ, the whole ordinary being follows the direction of the central impulse. HOW WE MAY DO IT.1. Recur to the motive of the text. There has been nothing sinful, on the contrary the work, it may be, has been sacred, undertaken with prayer, and been for the good of man and the glory of God, and yet there is no satisfaction.I. There are of course many visionaries, men pursuing objects which have no real existence, but to them they are not unreal. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. Preached February 9, 1851. If they indeed have risen with him, he argues that they should leave the grave of iniquity and the graveclothes of their sins behind, and act as those who are endowed with that superior life, which accounts sin to be death and corruption. And shall not such love quicken us to do all things better. Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. That is what the priest will invoke for you all, when you leave this abbey. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." Differently to be admonished are servants and masters. Here we may fall into opposite mistakes. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." i. Pure religion is when the sense of God's love, of the vastness of His claims, of the breadth of His commandments, so works through the life as to make it one organic whole, and when the poor unworthy distinction of secular and sacred is forgotten; when what is most religious is most human, and what is commonest is ennobled and justified by the grace which flows from "Christ our Life.". It were well for the Church and the world if we recognized more clearly this breadth of Christian duty. By the authority of Christ (Acts 3:6).2. That you would comfort all the families involved and especially those that have been impacted by these fires. Not more cer tainly does the law of gravity reach from world to world than does this law prevail wherever intelligence exists.2. Preached February 9, 1851. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." MY devout hearers! The stress lies on "the name of the Lord Jesus."1. 3. The belief in Christ is not only the unavoidable conclusion of a sound mind from evidence, but the only satisfactory way to account for the state of the world in which we find ourselves. the best one has been left for you." If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer "yes"? 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. These words may be taken as an independent precept (Ephesians 5:20) or a reason for the preceding rule, a title under which we ought to do all things in the name of Christ, so that our whole life may be an act of gratitude through Christ, which is to be preferred.1. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. The life of the saint and of the sinner are made up very much of the same commonplace duties, and in all that is patent to the world there may be little difference between them: but the spirit by which they are actuated constitutes a gulf between them as wide as that which divides light and darkness, heaven and hell.3. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. So the apostle means , (a)That we refer all to His glory. 2 Tim. AugustineOn ContinenceEpistle xxxiii. One question that rises in every mind is this: "How can I live that life of perfect trust in God?" This implies three things.1. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. 2. Bible Verse: Colossians 3:12-17 Created Date: May, 2016 Video Length: 35:39 Transcript Length: 7 minute read PDF Buy PDF Buy Watch YouTube Prime Vimeo And who looks down upon us? 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. (4) Now suppose a man embrace Jesus as his Saviour let Christ's love become the acknowledged fact of His life, then it will become a constraining motive, and will not be contented with influencing some of his faculties, employing some of his time; from the nature of things it must have all Christ is mine, and I am His, and whatever I do, spiritual or secular, business or recreation, I must do all in His name. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." (1) We may take the sayings of Scripture strictly to the letter, set them clown as exaggerated, and above our capacities. The merest crystal fragment, that has been flung out into the field and trampled on the ground, shines like a diamond when sunbeams stoop to kiss it. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. God the Father is the proper object of gratitude as the first principle of action, though not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit.3. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8).2. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful. Application:1. De Witt Talmage, D. D.Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like this: He said spirits of the other world came back to this world to find, body and find a sphere of work. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. )Christian ends lend grandeur to human lifeT. It might surprise us to find that peace is urged on us as a duty. (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. 4. In the realm of spirit as of matter when we see a great result we know that behind it is a great cause; and we may search the world and we shall not find a power over human hearts comparable with that which lies in this name. (2) Observe how such motives act. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. We must exercise our thoughts much upon Him, and be much taken up with Him in the course of our lives (Psalm 73:23).IV. All the apparent extravagance of the injunction vanishes when we lay our hands on the secret of the Divine life. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." Does it not give strength to self-denial to take up our cross after Jesus? The faith of those things, which have been mentioned, would be of great use and advantage to believers; and therefore they should study to have the faith of this truth fixed on their hearts, and a deep impression thereof on their spirits, to the end, that, 1. 11.) . It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. It is not necessary that a motive should be based on reality to be all-constraining, but it is in order that it may be a worthy motive for an intelligent being. Churches are, but not houses we live in. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." John 17:1-9 God's voice always leads us to glorify Him and accomplish His purposes. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth, Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. To write hymns sacred. (Colossians iii. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13).7. (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. 4. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. able, it would lose immensely in its character for truth and its power for good.2. Have Him before thee as the pattern whom thou art to copy; the Redeemer in whom is thy strength, the Master and Friend whom thou art to serve and please, thy Creator and thy heaven. Shall Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871Christ is AllMY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. This round world may therefore become to us a temple, and this little life a song of praise.II. Small cups - enough for each child to have one. For the glory of Christ (Acts 15:26). (Dean Alford. Nothing seemed to be able to draw Ephraim's heart away from the idols. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God's work--it is all of grace. There they taught us the great lesson "Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus." He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. --Colossians iii. There is nothing can do it but the Cross of Christ and the Spirit of God. There can be no duty except where there is a matter of obedience; and it might seem to us that peace is a something over which we have no power. Colossians 3: "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. "Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart." Ulysses said, "What's that?" (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. Hast thou ever deeply loved parent, bride, husband, or child? To Dominicus. iii 15. If we would know what Christ wants to be to us, we Dwight L. MoodyThe Way to God and How to Find ItBut, after that He had Made Mention of These Evils30. Here is the sum of religion. 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. There is no act, however little, which Christ does not see and .touch, and which may not tend as much to His honour as the songs of the Seraphim; there is no affection, talent, energy on which He does not put His hand and say, "That is mine," and which may not be transformed into a worship as sincere as that of the communion; no step we can take in life over which He does not watch, and which may not be made a step on the road that brings us nearer Him; no time here or hereafter when it will not be a delightful duty to "do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." where shall I begin to describe thine endless misery, who art condemned as soon as conceived; and adjudged to eternal death, before thou wast born to a temporal life? But all reproof and chastisement did not bring Ephraim back. All the wicked dealings and defilement of Ephraim is uncovered--and the Lord said: "I will be unto Ephraim as a lion." 2. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. For the confirmation of faith. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fifth Sunday after EpiphanyText: Colossians 3, 12-17. --Colossians iii. How intensely secular they may become I How mean and perfunctory the spirit in which they may be performed! (6) Such deep constraining motive is not usually displayed before men; but its existence is not easily concealed. Great, moreover, is the power of charity, beloved brother, which binds hearts one to another in mutual affection with the Saint Gregory the Greatthe Epistles of Saint Gregory the GreatHow Servants and Masters are to be Admonished. 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