Philoxenus of Mabbug

It is written that Jesus "took the form of a servant, and He became the likeness of the children of men, and He was found to be in form like unto a man," and He was truly as we are. But in one thing, which is outside of us, He did not participate, that is to say, He did not possess on this earth riches, and possessions, or mammon, or wealth, or buildings, or estates, or vineyards, for Jesus possessed none of these things in order that He might teach His own disciples that they should not possess them; and that Being Who was free took no care for them, that He might free us also from care for them. And He was not bowed beneath the yoke of bondage to the world, that He might also take from off us the heavy yoke of the bondage of the world; and He was not fettered by human affairs that He might loose from off us the fetters thereof; and carking care did not chain Him, that He might raise His disciples above the care and anxiety concerning all the things which are visible. The free Man dwelt in creation in freedom in order that He might teach us in very deed also to live therein in freedom. Whosoever then wisheth to become a disciple to that Master let him regard the sojourn of His Master in the world, and as He was, even so let him himself be in creation. The Lord of the world was a stranger and an alien in the world, and as was the Lord, even so it is meet that the servants should be.