For He rejoiced in keeping company with poor mortals, whom He helped and loved much. For He said that blessed are the poor, for these shall have the kingdom and the heavenly homeland, and blessed also are the merciful, who will find great mercy, having been greatly burdened, and that we have always (God said) the poor with us, and it is necessary to love them as our own hearts. So to the good king these things in the Gospel (that Christ decrees) were a concern at all times.