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Hilary of Poitiers — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:25-26

Patristic A.D. 367

Hilary of Poitiers · c. A.D. 310–367

“For because charity covereth a multitude of sins, we shall therefore pay the last farthing of punishment, unless by the expense of charity we redeem the fault of our sin.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:25-26 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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