For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ" (Galat.

i, 10).

And the Psalmist says: "They who have been pleasing to men have been confounded, for that God hath despised them." Commenting on this, St.Jerome, whose heir methinks I am in the endurance of foul slander, says in his letter to Nepotanius: "The apostle says: 'If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.' He no longer seeks to please men, and so is made Christ's servant" (Epist.

2).

And again, in his letter to Asella regarding those whom he was falsely accused of loving: "I give thanks to my God that I am worthy to be one whom the world hates" (Epist.