Ludolph the Carthusian or Ludolph of Saxony - The Life of Jesus Christ - Part 1 Chapter 37 - The Sermon on the Mount continued: The Importance of forgiving others - page 707 - translated by Milton Walsh
Copyright 2018 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. Used with permission.
When speaking of prayer on another occasion Jesus said, And when you shall stand to pray, forgive, if you have anything against any man, so that your Father also, who is in Heaven, may forgive you your sins [St Mark 11.25]
Chrysostom comments, "Therefore he makes mention of Heaven and of the Father to capture our attention: nothing makes us so like God as forgiving those who injure us. It is entirely unsuitable for the son .. of such a Father to be cruel, or for one who is called to Heaven to nurture an Earthbound frame of mind" [Hom. Matt. 19.7; PG 57/58: 283].
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