Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Let us then learn so to love this life as to be prepared to lay it down whenever the Lord pleases: let us also learn to desire death, but so as to live to the Lord, and to proceed in the race set before use until he himself lead us to its end. Now follows the reproof of God — 