{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2111082.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2111082.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2111082.htm","text":"A question how we ought to understand what the gospel says \u201cMy yoke is easy and My burden is light.\u201d\nGermanus: As you have given us a remedy for all delusions, and by God\u2019s grace all the wiles of the devil by which we were harassed, have been exposed by your teaching, we beg that you will also explain to us this that is said in the gospel: \u201cMy yoke is easy, and My burden is light.\u201d 2324 For it seems tolerably opposed to that saying of the prophet where it is said: \u201cFor the sake of the words of Thy lips I kept hard ways;\u201d while even the Apostle says: \u201cAll who will live godly in Christ suffer persecutions.\u201d 2325 But whatever is hard and fraught with persecutions cannot be easy and light.\nS. Matt. xi. 30.\n541:2325","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XXII. A question how we ought to understand what the gospel says \u201cMy yoke is easy and My burden is light.\u201c","type":"page"}