Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. 25. in Act.) For there is no sin which almsgiving does not avail to blot out. It is a salve adapted to ever wound. But almsgiving has to do not only with money, but with all matters also wherein man succours man, as when the physician heals, and the wise man gives counsel.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 12:32-34
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗