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Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), Sandro Botticelli

Catena Aurea on Matthew 11:7–10: Augustine of Hippo

Sandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480 · Ognissanti, Florence · Public domainSandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480, Ognissanti, Florence

CommentAugustine of HippoPublic domainMatthew 11:7–10

In all such things we blame not the use of the things, but the lust of those that use them. For whoever uses the good things in his reach more sparingly than are the habits of those with whom he lives, is either temperate or superstitious. Whoever again uses them in a measure exceeding the practice of the good among whom he lives, either has some [margin note: aliquid] meaning therein, or else is dissolute.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).

Also cites: Doctr. Christ., iii, 12

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