{"id":9579,"date":"2015-03-10T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2015-03-10T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T06:28:28","slug":"god-seeketh-thyself-more-than-thy-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/god-seeketh-thyself-more-than-thy-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"God seeketh thyself more than thy gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9580\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/god-seeketh-thyself-more-than-thy-gift\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311-jpgblog\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpgBlog.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"431,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpg!Blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpgBlog-400x464.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpgBlog.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9580\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpgBlog-400x464.jpg\" alt=\"mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpg!Blog\" width=\"400\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpgBlog-400x464.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mockery-of-christ-fragment-1311.jpgBlog.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Saint Augustine at Matins Today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let no man deem it a light thing when he trespasseth against his brother. For the Apostle Paul saith in a certain place, &#8216;When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ&#8217; (1 Corinthians 8:12). We are all members of Christ. How dost thou not trespass against Christ, which trespassest against one of His members? Let no man therefore say I have not trespassed against God, but only against my brother; that is, I have trespassed against my fellowman; and so the sin is light, if any at all. And perchance thou wilt argue that it is light, because it is quickly mended; thou hast trespassed against thy brother, but thou canst make satisfaction, and be right again; thou hast done the deadly thing quickly, and quickly canst thou find a remedy. O my brethren, which of us can hope for the kingdom of heaven, when we remember that the Gospel saith, &#8216;Whosoever shall say to his brother Thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire?&#8217; (Matthew 5:22). It is a thought full of dread; but, lo! the remedy: &#8216;If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift&#8217; (Matthew 5:23). <strong>God is not wroth that thou tarry or ever thou offer thy gift; for God seeketh thyself more than thy gift<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Augustine at Matins Today Let no man deem it a light thing when he trespasseth against his brother. For the Apostle Paul saith in a certain place, &#8216;When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ&#8217; (1 Corinthians 8:12). We are all members of Christ. How dost <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florilegium-patristicum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-2uv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9582,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}