Luke 9:23
Douay-Rheims
And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Basil of Caesarea
(ubi sup. lnt. 8.) Herein then stands a man’s perfection, that he should have his affections hardened, even towards life itself, and have ever about him the answer (ἀποκρίμα.) of death a, that he should by no means trust in himself. (2 Cor. 1:9.) But perfection takes its beginning from the relinquishment of things foreign to it; suppose these to be possessions or vain-glory, or affection for things that profit not.
Source details
A.D. 379 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 9:23-27
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