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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:38-42

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“If we understand this only of alms, it cannot stand with the estate of the most part of men who are poor; even the rich if they have been always giving, will not be able to continue always to give.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:38-42 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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