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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:38-42

Patristic A.D. 430

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

“(Epist. 93. 2.) For with more benefit is food taken from the hungry, if certainty of provision causes him to neglect righteousness, than that food should be supplied to him that he may consent to a deed of violence and wrong.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:38-42 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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