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 place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me: behold I have gained other two, His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. (Matt. xxv. 14-23.)

And we desire that every one of you show forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end: That you become not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises. (Heb. vi. 11, 12.)

I remembered, O Lord, Thy judgments of old: and I was comforted. A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake Thy law. Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage. In the night I have remembered Thy name, O Lord: and have kept Thy law. This happened to me: because I sought after Thy justifications. (Ps, cxviii. 52-56.)

And the pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting. And when He had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, He drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers He poured out, and the tables He overthrew. And to them that sold doves He said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of My Father a house of traffic. And His disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of Thy house hath eaten Me up. (John ii. 13-17.)

And when Elias heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and coming forth stood in the entering-in of the cave, and behold a voice unto him, saying: What dost thou here, Elias? And he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant: they have destroyed Thy altars, they have slain Thy prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away. (3 Kings xix. 13, 14.)