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"And against Me they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together" 1 (ver. 15), against Me only: they rejoicing, I sorrowful. But we heard just now in the Gospel, "Blessed are they that mourn." 2 If they are blessed that mourn, miserable are they that laugh. "Against Me they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: scourges were gathered together against Me, and they knew not." 3 Because they laid to My charge things that I knew not, they also knew not Whom they charged.
