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One cannot be excused from almsgiving on the grounds that one has children for whose patrimony and inheritance one is responsible. To do so is to forsake one’s real responsibility for one’s children and therefore to betray them: “You are unfair and traitorous father, unless you…preserve them in religion and true piety. You who are careful rather for their earthy than for their heavenly state, rather to commend your children to the devil than to Christ, are sinning twice, both in not providing for your children the aid of God their Father, and in teaching your children to love their property more than Christ.” —Cyprian (200-258 AD)
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:32:44 +0000

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