are accustomed to envy and ridicule those who preach them with great effort. Let them laugh as much as they want; they have the Lord answering for us: ‘Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.’12 They also have the Lord saying: ‘Woe to you who laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you who are filled! for you shall hunger.’13 Let the proud laugh at us; let us with shouting and groaning both day and night implore God’s mercy for their salvation, unworthy though we may be.
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