Matthew 6:7
Douay-Rheims
And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.
Augustine of Hippo
(ubi sup.) And truly all superfluity of discourse has come from the Gentiles, who labour rather to practise their tongues than to cleanse their hearts, and introduce this art of rhetoric into that wherein they need to persuade God.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:7-8
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.