Salvation

" At what price would you have confessed, O men, that you would buy eternal salvation, if it were for sale?

you have not desired to see heaven and the maker of heaven, nor sought to hear and learn of the Maker and Father of all things, joining your choice to salvation.

And there are many other goods, too, for the lovers of righteousness to enjoy, who pursue eternal salvation — yes, and those which God himself hints at, speaking through Isaiah:

But to him who looks toward salvation and longs for it and asks for it with importunity and violence, the good Father in the heavens will grant the true cleansing and the unchanging life.

Let it teach the well-to-do that they must neither neglect their own salvation as though already condemned beforehand, nor again sink wealth in the deep, nor condemn it as a plotter and enemy against life, but learn in what manner and how wealth is to be used and life acquired.

But the matter before us, I think, has been shown in nothing inferior to the promise—namely, that the Saviour has in no way shut out the rich on the very ground of wealth and the encompassing of possession, nor has He fenced off salvation from them, provided they are able and willing to bow themselves to the commandments of God, and prefer their own life to transient things, and look toward the Lo …