for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they ended, He was hungry.

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have never nursed.’

“And His mercy is upon generation after generation
Toward those who [stand in great awe of God and] fear Him.

And his master commended the unjust manager [not for his misdeeds, but] because he had acted shrewdly [by preparing for his future unemployment]; for the sons of this age [the non-believers] are shrewder in relation to their own kind [that is, to the ways of the secular world] than are the sons of light [the believers].