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What is meant by daily bread. , convenient for our fib fiance and being. So thatA ápmv sitiuóv 70%t/ /7110701/3 our daily bread, fignifieth that portion of temporali things which thou haft aßîgned as moll fit and convenient for us. Sic Beza clmecrav interpretatur panem cibarium, vet panem nobis fuflentandis idoneurn. So Beza inter. preteth Pnémov, bread fit for meals, or convenient to fu- flein us. This expofition I take to be the fafeft, not onely becaufe it is made by the Greek writers , whofe judgement in this cafe we are rather to fol- low then the Latines;but alfobecaufe it agreeth with the Syriack interpretation, Da nobis panem neceßita- tis notr,e:But efpecially becaufe it fully agreeth with that prayer of Agur, Pro.3 o.8. Give me rot poverty nor riches, but nouriJb me'nn =7?17, cibo dimenfi mei, vet pane præfccripti, vel porti one quam afssignafli mi- hi: With the bread which thou haft allowed me;or with meat appointed for my portion; or give me the portion which thou haft affigned me: as Gen.47. 22. or as the LXXII interpret, Give me `AOVTx Xj cu./Tr/pot. Auguft. Con Ftitue mihì qux nece /aria flint fu fficien- ter, Give me thofe things which are neceirary in a fufficient meafure. Now whereas the Lord Jcfus doth dire& us thus to pray, he teacheth us to avoid two extremities; that we neither covet abundance, _nor -affe_ pover- ty: according to Agurs prayer, Prov.3o.8. Give me riot poverty nor riches, but feed me with food convenient for me. For thofe that defire either of thefe know not their own infirmity. Wealth many times is ac- The evils companied with thefe vices :I. Pride, oblivion ,and that accom= contempt of God, Deut. 8.1 r, 14, 17. and 32. t pang rihes 2. Chrono 331 .