"The Law of God sets up and ordains the active life; it does not ordain monastic traditions but those things which belong to our vocation in external life. Let men individually consider in which kind of life they are engaged, and in that let them serve their vocation and carefully practice the duties commanded in the Decalog. Afterwards, in trials you will become an Israelite by retaining and practicing faith in the promise. As you were a Jacob in the Decalog, so you will be an Israel in the promises, which urge you on to prayer. The outstanding example of this is the Canaanite woman in Matt. 15:22–28, who is very well exercised in the speculative life and who presses on in such a manner that she does not allow herself to be repelled by any words, however harsh. She knocks at and pounds the door so long until Christ is compelled to yield and listen to her and to praise her faith and perseverance."
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