The pushing, boastful temper is, in the long run, suicidal. It is wiser as well as nobler to take the lower place at first in humility, than to tak…

In the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen, and whose place you have shamele ly taken. The same le on was repeated by …

For better [it is] that it be said to you, Come up hither ,
&c.] It is much more to your honour and credit to seat y…

Religion teaches us humility and self-denial. The one who has seen the glory of the Lord in Christ Jesus will feel his own unworthiness.