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Jerome, on Matt 23:16
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
Matt 23:16 · Douay-Rheims
“Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.”
On this verse:
“Again, if one swore by the altar, none held him guilty of perjury; but if he swore by the gift or the victims or the other things which are offered to God upon the altar, this they exacted most rigorously. And all this they did not out of fear of God, but out of covetousness. Thus the Lord charges them with both folly and fraud, inasmuch as the altar is much greater than the victims which are sanctified by the altar.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.