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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.

Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their uses.

All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and they are all obedient.

And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses of the temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released, because they appertain to the priests that minister.

It is by this means, by taking up into itself the noblest elements, that the soul is established in purity, and having fixed its aim on piety, the noblest goal of all, it uses this as its infallible guide and so acquires a definite purpose.