He then proceeds to contrast the opposite issues of the two radical tendencies, as illustrating the difference of their origin and nature. "And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." All that is in the world being perishable, so likewise is all the pleasure connected with it. He therefore who seeks his highest good in the perishable, will see that for which he has striven the prey of destruction, nothing left to him but bitter disappointment. But he who does the will of God, and on that fixes his love, will with his love survive all that is earthly. When all that is earthly has passed away, he will have attained to an eternal divine life of blessedness; living forever, with that which was the object and end of all his strivings, in a state beyond the fear of decay or death.