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“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
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Verse 29. Are not two sparrows? The sense is, sparrows are of very small value, and yet divine Providence defends and feeds them; how much more, therefore, will not God take care of you, who so far excel them? No one, therefore, will be able to rob you of life without God’s permission. Menochius.
An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor.
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