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He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal - (See on Luk 9:24). Did our Lord mean to exclude Himself from the operation of the great principle here expressed - self-renunciation, the law of self-preservation; and its converse, self-preservation, the law of self-destruction? On the contrary, as He became Man to exemplify this fundamental law of the Kingdom of God in its most sublime form, so the very utterance of it on this occasion served to sustain His own Spirit in the double prospect to which He had just alluded.