CHAPTER XXXVI.^

On the words “ Forgive us our trespasses.’*
1. “ Forgive us our trespasses.” On forgiving injuries. 2. Forgiveness of others a debt we owe to God. 3. False and true honour. 4. Honour in religious houses. 5. Humilitg obtains true honour, while pride forfeits it. 6. The merits of mutual forgiveness. 7. Forgiveness of injuries a mark of true contemplatives. 8. Humility and patience of contemplatives. 9. Union always accompanied by forgiveness and longsuffering, though in a less degree than in contemplatives. 10. The divine example. 11. The prayer or contemplation is not genuine unless it produces these two virtues.
“ FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FOR- GIVE THEM THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US.”