John 2:14
Douay-Rheims
And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
Bede the Venerable
(in loc.) They then are the sellers of doves, who, after receiving the free grace of the Holy Spirit, do not dispense it freely2, as they are commanded, but at a price: who confer the laying on of hands, by which the Holy Spirit is received, if not for money, at least for the sake of getting favour with the people, who bestow Holy Orders not according to merit, but favour.
Source details
A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 2:14-17
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.