service from a better beginning, when from then on, due to subsequent laziness and hardness of heart, they slipped away into a harmful lukewarmness and into the deep abyss of death. 3. “We see that this is also clearly brought out in the call of the apostles. For what did it profit Judas to have willingly accepted the most sublime honor, that of the apostleship, in the same way that Peter and the other apostles were received into it, when he brought the splendid beginnings of his calling to the terrible