Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vol. LVI: Augustini Epistulae Pars III

in his words and may prevail when he is judged, and for so long the light of his preaching may shine in the world and not be crushed or defeated by any snares, until he places judgment upon the earth and that which is written is fulfilled: your will be done, as in heaven and on earth. And in his name the Gentiles shall hope, or in his law the islands shall hope. For just as islands are indeed struck by the turbulence and blast of winds and frequent tempests, but are not overturned, according to the example of the evangelical house, which is founded with robust mass upon the rock, so also the churches, which hope in the law and in the name of the Lord Savior, speak through Isaiah: I am a firm city, a city that is attacked.

3. What sense does it have, that which is written in the Evangelist Matthew: If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself. What is this denial, or how does he who follows the Savior deny himself?
— Concerning which, in the third book of the commentaries on the same Matthew, I spoke thus briefly: he who puts off the old man with his deeds denies himself, saying: 'I live, however, not I, but Christ lives in me,' and takes up his cross and is crucified to the world. And to whom the world is crucified, he follows the crucified Lord. To which we can now add these things: after he showed his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the priests and scribes and chief priests and to be killed, Peter, taking him aside, began

Jerome concludes his interpretation of Christ’s mission as a firm foundation against tempests, then moves to the second question concerning the "denial of self." He equates this act to the Pauline concept of dying to the "old man" and being crucified to the world to live entirely in Christ.