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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 12:32-34

Patristic A.D. 735
Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
“That is, by doing alms, the reward of which abideth for ever; which must not be taken as a command that no money be kept by the saints either for their own, or the use of the poor, since we read that our Lord Himself, to whom the angels ministered, (Matt. 4:11) had a bag in which he kept the offerings of the faithful; (John 12:6.) but that God should not be obeyed for the sake of such things, and righteousness be not forsaken from fear of poverty.”
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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