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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:14

Patristic A.D. 407
John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407
“The manner of this plundering is grievous, for they make long prayers. Every one who does evil deserves punishment; but he who takes occasion for his offence from religion, deserves more severe punishment; Therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:14 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗
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