to them, all the while expecting nothing in return from them. The beneficence must not be motivated by hope of gain, but simply by the love of God. Only then will one receive a great and bountiful reward for one’s piety. Then they will be sons of the Highest, as God gives them the blessing reserved for His own children. This blessing of God upon His sons, then, presupposes that they act like their heavenly Father. He is kind to the ungrateful and evil, and Jesus’ disciples must be kind to the ungrateful