that ye enter not into temptation;
why none of all these? but what saith he? "Verily I say unto you,
that if ye forgive men their trespasses," in reference to that
petition, "Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors."
Having passed over all the other petitions which he taught us, this
he taught us with an especial force. There was no need of insisting
so much upon those sins in which if a man offend, he may know the
means whereby he may be cured; need of it there was with regard to
that sin in which, if thou sin, there is no means whereby the rest
can be cured. For this thou oughtest to be ever saying, "Forgive us
our debts." What debts? There is no lack of them, for we are but
men; I have talked somewhat more than I ought, have said something I
ought not, have laughed more than I ought, have eaten more than I
ought, have listened with pleasure to what I ought not, have drunk
more than I ought, have seen with pleasure what I ought not, have
thought with pleasure on what I ought not; "Forgive us our debts, as
we also forgive our debtors." This if thou hast lost, thou art lost
thyself.

Take heed, my brethren, my sons, sons of God, take heed, I beseech
you, in that I am saying to you. Fight to the uttermost of your
powers with your own hearts. And if ye shall see your anger making a
stand against you, pray to God against it, that God may make thee
conqueror of thyself, that God may make thee conqueror, I say, not
of thine enemy without, but of thine own soul within. For he will
give thee his present help, and will do it. He would rather that we
ask this of him, than rain. For ye see, beloved, how many petitions
the Lord Christ hath taught us; and there is scarce found among them
one which speaks of daily bread, that all our thoughts may be molded
after the life to come. For what can we fear that he will not give
us, who hath promised and said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you;
for your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things before ye
ask him." "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things shall be added unto you." For many have been
tried even with hunger, and have been found gold, and have not been
forsaken by God. They would have perished with hunger, if the daily
inward bread were to leave their heart. After this let us chiefly
hunger. For, "Blessed are they who hunger and thirs