(6) Behold, I send you forth as (f) sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and (g) harmless as doves.
(6) Christ shows how the ministers must behave themselves under the cross.
(f) You will be in great danger.
(g) You will not so much as take revenge for an injury: and by the mixing of these beast's natures together, he will not have our wisdom to be malicious, nor our simplicity mad, but a certain form of good nature which is composed exquisitely of both of them.