H8 THE TREATISES OF CYPRIAN.
be clothed? forthesethingsthe nationsseekafter.But your
Father knoweth thatye have need of allthesethings. Seek
firstthekingdom of God, and His righteousness;and allthese
things shallbe added unto you."1 Likewise in the same
place: "Think not for the morrow, for the morrow shall
take thought for itself.Sufficientunto the day is itsown
evil."2 Likewise in the same place: " No one lookingback,
and puttinghis hands to the plough,isfitfor the kingdom
of God."3 Also in the same place: "Behold the fowls of
the heaven :fortheysow not,nor reap,nor gatherintobarns;
and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of
more value than they?" 4 Concerning thissame thing,ac
cordingto Luke : " Let your loinsbe girded,and your lamps
burning;and ye likeunto men thatwait fortheirlord,when
he cometh from the wedding ; that,when he cometh and
knocketh,they may open to him. Blessedare thoseservants,
whom theirlord,when he cometh, shallfind watching."5
Of thissame thingin Matthew : " The foxeshave holes,and
the birdsof the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath
not where He may lay His head."6 Also in the same
place: " Whoso forsakethnot allthat he hath, caunot be
my disciple."7 Of thissame thing in the firstto the
Corinthians: " Ye are not your own, forye are bought with
a greatprice. Glorifyand bear God in your body."8 Also
in the same place: " The time is limited. It remaineth,
therefore,thatboth they who have wives be as though they
have them not,and theywho lament as they thatlament not,
and they that rejoiceas they thatrejoicenot,and they who
buy as they that buy not,and they who possessas they who
possessnot,and they who use thisworld as they thatuse it
not ; forthe fashionof thisworld passethaway."9 Also in
the same place: " The firstman isof the clayof the earth,
the second man from heaven. As he isof the clay,such also
are they who are of the clay; and as isthe heavenly,such
alsoare the heavenly. Even as we have borne the image of
1Matt.vi.31-33. 2 Matt.vi.34. 3 Lukeix.62.
*Matt.vi.26. 5Luke xii.35-37. 0Matt,viil20.
i Lukexiv.33. 8 1 Cor.vi.19,20. 9 1 Cor.vii.29-31.