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Gregory of Nazianzus — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 12:32-34

Patristic A.D. 390

Gregory of Nazianzus · A.D. 329–390

“(Orat. 14.) Now I fear lest you should think deeds of mercy to be not necessary to you, but voluntary. I also thought so, but was alarmed at the goats placed on the left hand, not because they robbed, but did not minister unto Christ among the poor.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 12:32-34 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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