Patience And Suffering

Non est discipulus super magistrum... Seipsum proponit exemplum patientiae, ut quod Dominus patitur, non sit grave servis tolerare, quasi dicat: Nolite mirari, si ita vos persequuntur, me enim Dominum tractabunt similiter. Non sit ergo turpe pati quod ego patior, quia non est discipulus supra magistrum, id est non est majoris meriti meus discipulus, quam ego magister. Sufficit ergo discipulo meo, id est sufficere debet, ut sit sicut magister ejus, id est ut eum imitetur, et in quo imitetur supponit. Anselmus Laudunensis, Enarrationes In Matthaeum, Caput XII Source: Migne PL 162.1345a

The disciple is not greater than the master... 1 He proposes Himself as an example of patience, so that because the Lord suffers it might not be burdensome for a servant to endure, as if He said, 'Do not wonder that they persecute you, for they shall treat me, the Lord, similarly. 2 Let it not be shameful to suffer, for I suffer, because the disciple is not greater than the master, that is, there is no greater merit in my disciple then in me the master.' 'Therefore it suffices for my disciple,' that is, it should suffice, 'that he is like his master,' 3 that is, that he imitates Him and in that imitation is set under Him.' Anselm of Laon, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 12 1 Mt 10.24 2 cf Jn 15.20 3 Mt 10.25