“Let us then not consider how to leave our children rich, but how to leave them virtuous.”
Let us then not consider how to leave our children rich, but how to leave them virtuous.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans, Homily VII (on Rom. III. 9-18)
From the homilies on Romans preached at Antioch, in a long attack on inherited wealth as a thing parents mistake for provision.
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Read in Morris & Simcox, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. B. Morris and W. H. Simcox, revised by George B. Stevens
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