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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 20:45-47

Patristic A.D. 407
John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407
“Thrusting themselves also into the possessions of widows, they grind down their poverty, not content to eat as it may be afforded them, but greedily devouring; using prayer also to an evil end, they thus expose themselves to a heavier condemnation; as it follows, These shall receive the greater damnation.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 20:45-47 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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