“Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.”
Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.
John Chrysostom · Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles · NPNF1 XI, Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLV (on Acts XX. 32)
Nine words closing a long argument that almsgiving is the one form of wealth nothing can reach.
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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
As with every saying from the Acts homilies, the text is a reporter's record the preacher never revised.
Read in Walker, Sheppard & Browne, NPNF series 1 vol. 11 (1889) · J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, revised by George B. Stevens
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