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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Hebrews 13:16

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Hebrews 13:16 (WEB)

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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John Chrysostom

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “Why, we have known ascetics of this class who have persisted in their fasting even unto death, as if “with such sacrifices God were well pleased;” and, again, others who rush off into the extreme diametrically opposite, practising celibacy in name only and leading a life in no way different from the…” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 16.

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Augustine of Hippo

Clement of Alexandria

  • “But rather, he says, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently, lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel surrendered his birth-right; and lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 14–16.

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