8. I am become a stranger to my brethren. The
Jews, his brethren in race, rejected him; his family, his brethren by blood,
were offended at him; his disciples, his brethren in spirit, forsook him and
fled. And an alien unto my mother’s children. These were the nearest of
relatives: the children of a father with many wives felt the tie of
consanguinity only loosely, but children of the same mother owned the band of
love; yet our Lord found his nearest and dearest ones ashamed to own him. May
none of us ever act as if we were strangers to him; never may we treat him as
if he were an alien to us: rather let us resolve to be crucified with him, and
may grace turn the resolve into fact.
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