still, if he himself had not first given evidence of his own goodwill, he would not have enjoyed the Lord’s help. So do not have eyes only for that, but each day study and learn how by first providing a sample of his own virtue in every circumstance, he was judged worthy of help.2 More than once we pointed out to you, when he was making his move from his ancestral land how, far from receiving from his forebears the seeds of religion, he gave evidence from his very own disposition of his great godliness.