So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. 'In the warfare you will each have to wage as My disciples, despise not your enemy's strength, for the odds are all against you; and you had better see to it that, despite every disadvantage, you still have wherewithal to hold out and win the day, or else not begin at all, but make the best you can in such awful circumstances.' In place of this simple and natural sense of the latter parable, Stier, Alford, etc., go wide of the mark, making the enemy here meant to be God, because of the "conditions of peace" which the parable speaks of. It is the spirit of such a case, rather than the mere phraseology, that is to be seized.