St. Mark the Ascetic: The Law figuratively commands men to work for six days and on the seventh to rest...
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The Law figuratively commands men to work for six days and on the seventh to rest (cf. Exod. 20:9-10).
The term 'work' when applied to the soul signifies acts of kindness and generosity by means of our possessions - that is, through material things. But the soul's rest and repose is to sell everything and 'give to the poor' (Matt. 19:21), as Christ Himself said; so through its lack of possessions it will rest from its work and devote itself to spiritual hope. Such is the rest into which Paul also exhorts us to enter, saying: 'Let us strive therefore to enter into that rest' (Heb. 4:11).
St. Mark the Ascetic
