Shepherd of Hermas 51
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He said to me: Ye know that ye servants of God are dwelling in a foreign land; for your city is far from this city. If then ye know your city in which ye shall dwell, why do ye here prepare fields and elaborate equipment and buildings and dwellings which are superfluous?
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He therefore that prepareth these things for this city does not purpose to return to his own city. O foolish and double-minded and miserable man, perceivest thou not that all these things are foreign, and are under the power of another?
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For the lord of this city shall say: I do not wish thee to dwell in my city; go forth from this city, for thou dost not conform to my laws.
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What then shalt thou do, who art under the law of thine own city? For the sake of thy fields and the rest of thy possessions, wilt thou altogether repudiate thy law and walk according to the law of this city?
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Instead of fields, buy souls that are in trouble, as each is able, and visit widows and orphans, and neglect them not; and spend your riches and all your displays, which ye received from God, on fields and houses of this kind.