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Give of your bread to the hungry, and of your garments to those who are naked. Give alms from all your abundance. Don’t let your eye be envious when you give alms.
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Verse 16. Another. Behold the grand maxim of fraternal charity. Matthew 8:12. Alex. Severus was so much pleased with it, that he had it often repeated by a herald, and inscribed on public edifices. What thou wouldst not have done to thee, do not thou to another. Lamprid.—Greek and Hebrew add a caution against drunkenness and drunken companions. Fagius has another against revenge; and the old Vulg. “give not way to wickedness.”
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