CHAP. XVI.
1926 anthology with historical English translations and Crane introduction
William Wake and Frank Crane
CHAP. XVI.
This enforced from the examples of the holy angels, and from the exceeding greatness of that reward which God has prepared for us.
THE good workman with confidence receives the bread of his[369] labour; but the sluggish and lazy cannot look him in the face that set him on work.
2 We must therefore be ready and forward in well doing; for from him are all things.
3 And thus he foretells us,[370] behold the Lord cometh, and his reward is with him, even before his face, to render to every one according to his work.
4 He warns us therefore beforehand, with all his heart to this end, that we should not be slothful and negligent in [371] well doing.
5 Let our boasting, therefore, and our confidence be in [372] God: let us submit ourselves to his will. Let us consider the whole multitude of his angels, how ready they stand to minister unto his will.
7 Wherefore let us also, being conscientiously gathered together in concord with one another; as it were with one mouth, cry earnestly unto him, that he would make us partakers of his great and glorious promises.
8 For he saith,[376] Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that wait for him.