his father by slaps or scourges, would he not be called proud, a hopeless case, ungrateful for his father’s discipline? And why does a human father instruct a human son? That he might not be able to lose the temporal goods which he has acquired for him, which he has gathered for him, which he does not wish him to lose, which he himself who leaves them behind could not keep forever. He does not teach a son with whom he is to co-possess, but one who is to possess after him. My brothers, if the father