Let your waists be girded about, and your lamps burning;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
We are servants because we have a Lord in our God. We ought "to have our loins girded: ".
in other words, we are to be free from the embarrassments of a perplexed and much occupied life; "to have our lights burning"