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Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.
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Sermon 61:13, On Almsgiving, The Fathers Of The Church: A New Translation. Saint Augustine Commentary On The Lord’s Sermon On The Mount With Seventeen Related Sermons, (1951), Ludwig Schopp, Roy Joseph Deferrari, vol. 11/3, p. 286.

 

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