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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 25:1-13

Patristic A.D. 420
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
“For these wise virgins do not answer thus out of covetousness, but out of fear. Wherefore, each man shall receive the recompense of his own works, and the virtues of one cannot atone for the vices of another in the day of judgment. The wise admonish them not to go to meet the bridegroom without oil, Go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 25:1-13 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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