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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:20-22

Patristic A.D. 407
John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407
“Or, Racha is a word signifying contempt, and worthlessness. For where we in speaking to servants or children say, Go thou, or, Tell thou him; in Syriac they would say Racha for ‘thou.’ For the Lord descends to the smallest trifles even of our behaviour, and bids us treat one another with mutual respect.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:20-22 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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