For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Ver. 15. For I have given you an example] υποδειγμα. This St Peter calls υπογραμμον, a copy for us to write after, 1 Peter 2:21. And in the same chapter saith that we should preach forth Christ's virtues, εξαγγειλητε, John 13:9; our lives should be as so many sermons upon Christ's life, while we strive to express him to the world in all his imitable graces. This is to walk in Christ,Colossians 2:6, to walk as Christ walked,1 John 2:6. The meditation of Christ's meekness converted the eunuch, Acts 8:32,33, &c. And we read of an earl, called Eleazarus, that being given to immoderate anger, was cured of that disordered affection by studying of Christ, and of his patience. This meditation he never suffered to pass from him, before he found his heart transformed into the similitude of Jesus Christ. Crux pendentis, cathedra docentis. (In Vita eius apud Surentius). The cross of hanging, the seat of learning.