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 <blockquote>For he to whom you would give is richer than you the giver. It is moreover a kind of sacrilege to give what belongs to the poor to those who are not poor. Yet to be a perfect and complete Christian it is not enough to despise wealth or to squander and fling away one's money, a thing which can be lost and found in a single moment. **Crates the Theban** did this, so did Antisthenes and several others, whose lives show them to have had many faults.  <blockquote>For he to whom you would give is richer than you the giver. It is moreover a kind of sacrilege to give what belongs to the poor to those who are not poor. Yet to be a perfect and complete Christian it is not enough to despise wealth or to squander and fling away one's money, a thing which can be lost and found in a single moment. **Crates the Theban** did this, so did Antisthenes and several others, whose lives show them to have had many faults. 
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 +Translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.)\\
 [[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001066.htm|Source]]</blockquote> [[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001066.htm|Source]]</blockquote>
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