“Let us withdraw from the bond of the body and leave everything earthly so that when the adversary comes he may find nothing of his in us. Let us strive for the eternal and fly up to the divine on the wings of love and the oars of charity. Let us rise up from here, that is, from the things of the age and those of the w…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — DEATH AS A GOOD 5.16
Original
31But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
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In context
29And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.