Little ones and their safety

About the little ones, to whose safety Jesus assigns us, St. John Chrysostom wrote an analogy with soldiers in battle:

Straightway as we come out of our house, let us have this one object in view, this earnest care above all, to rescue him that is in danger...For in a war too, and in an engagement, the soldier who is looking to this only how he may save himself by flight, destroys the rest also with himself; much as on the other hand the noble-minded one, and he who stands in arms in defense of the others, with the others preserves himself also.

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