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Being a Moneychanger

No friend of gold ever became a friend of Christ or a friend of people. — Saint John Chrysostom

Love scatters money

The lover of money sneers at the Gospel, and is a willful transgressor. He who has attained to love scatters his money. But he who says that he lives for love and for money has deceived himself. — St. John Climacus

Comment: the overturning of the moneychangers tables is a sign of this.

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