Matthew 5:11
Douay-Rheims
Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:
Jerome
This it is in the power of any one of us to attain, that when our good character is injured by calumny, we rejoice in the Lord. He only who seeks after empty glory cannot attain this. Let us then rejoice and exult, that our reward may be prepared for us in heaven.
Source details
A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:11-12
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.