and if a fish he may ask--a serpent will he present to him?
if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
`Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf--a stone will he present to him?
`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;