human
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. [Footnote 30] St. Gregory himself dwells with peculiar emphasis upon this passage, which he expounds thus,
gpt
Let us listen to what he said in this passage--let him who will follow me deny himself; in another place it is said that we should forego our possessions; here it is said that we should deny _ourselves_, and perhaps it is not laborious to a man to relinquish his possessions, but it is very laborious to relinquish _himself_. For it is a light thing to abandon what one has, but a much greater thing to abandon what _one is_.