Tobit 2:14 (WEB)
But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.” I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her. But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Cyprian of Carthage
“Behold what thou sufferest!”” — editor's note: Tob. ii. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He cried out because of the kid, lest it had come of theft; he did not like to hear the sound of any stolen thing in his house; and she, maintaining what she had done, reproached her husband; and when he said, “Restore it if it be stolen;” she answered insultingly, “Where are thy righteous deeds?”” — editor's note: Tob. ii. 14.
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