Preparation through Humility
He finds you as you ought to become. If, having anticipated, you humble yourself before the humbling, the humbling will not innovate anything strange against you, but having been prepared, you prepare the mind for the battle.
Well therefore David was saying, 'I was prepared, and I was not troubled' (Psalm 119:60). Let us flee therefore from arrogance, let us flee from vainglory, let us love Christ, and through Christ the poor, so that he who enriches all, he who shows mercy to all, may grant abundance to the Church, so that they may partake in piety, so that they may have.
Greek
εὑρίσκει, οἷος ὀφείλεις γενέσθαι. Ἐὰν προλαβὼν ταπεινώσῃς σεαυτὸν πρὸ τῆς ταπεινώσεως, οὐδὲν ξένον καινοτομήσει κατὰ σοῦ ἡ ταπείνωσις, ἀλλ' ἑτοιμασθεὶς τὴν διάνοιαν παρασκευάζῃ πρὸς τὴν μάχην. Καλῶς οὖν ἔλεγεν ὁ ∆αυΐδ, Ἡτοιμάσθην, καὶ οὐκ ἐταράχθην. Φύγωμεν οὖν ἀλαζονείαν, φύγωμεν κενοδοξίαν, ἀγαπήσωμεν Χριστὸν, καὶ διὰ Χριστὸν πένητας, ἵνα ὁ πάντας πλουτίζων, ὁ πάντας ‹59.610› ἐλεῶν, χαρίζηται πλῆθος τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ, ὥστε κομᾷν ἐν εὐσεβείᾳ, ὥστε ἔχειν