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Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 23
Mt 23, 14English original
Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
(interlin.) Devour widows’ houses, that is, your superstitions have this only aim, namely, to make a gain of the people that is put under you.