1PARABLES: He said to me: You know that you, servants of God, dwell in a foreign land.
2Because your city is far from this city. If, therefore, you know your city in which you are to dwell, why do you prepare here fields and costly constructions and buildings and empty dwellings?
3He who prepares these things for this city does not think of returning to his own city.
4Foolish and double-minded and miserable man, do you not perceive that all these things are foreign to you, and are under the power of another?