Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II What, I ask, more graceful, more gay-coloured, than flowers? What, I say, more delightful than lilies or roses? "And if God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little faith!"[222] Tertullian On Idolatry and as an example of clothing we have the lilies.[81] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV will appear a little further on. Meanwhile, how is it that He chides them as being "of little faith? "[1174]