By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing - This commandment of living comes directly from Jesus Himself at the Last Supper, when He refers to “the world” a staggering thirty-eight times... But more often He refers to “the world” as a spiritual force that is inherently at odds with Him and His mission. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”