touched with a spirit of envy, when another is commended or preferred to them. Learn, hence, to be particularly on your guard against this bad spirit. You ought rather to wish with Moses, that all might praise and honor God in the most exalted manner. " O that all the people might prophesy, and the Lord would give them His spirit." (Num. xi. 29.)
III. The father answers mildly and endeavors to reclaim him from his error. "Son," he says, "thou art always with me, and all I have is thine." O what a happiness it is for the just to have God always with them! How rich must he be, who has every thing in common with God! Learn to rejoice, when your brother is brought back to Christ, and endeavor yourself to bring as many as you can to Him.
FRIDAY
The Man that Fell among Thieves.— I.
I. " A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers." (Luke x. 30.) In this parable the fall of mankind in Adam is represented. Man in his first creation was ordained to take the course of this life from Jericho; that is, from this sublunary world (for Jericho means the Moon) to the heavenly Jerusalem. He, however, has turned his affections from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fallen among thieves; that is, his spiritual enemies, who have robbed him of original justice; "and having wounded him, went away, leaving him half dead."
II. The Angelical Doctor enumerates four wounds, which human nature received in the fall of Adam. The
