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| | CHURCH FATHERS: Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? (St. Clement of Alexandria) |
 | | they shall win the objects of hope, inasmuch as it is neither out of their reach, nor, on the other hand, attained without effort; but, as is the case with athletesto compare things small and perishing with things great and immortallet the man who is endowed with worldly wealth reckon that this depends on himself. |
 | | He does not, as some conceive off-hand, bid him throw away the substance he possessed, and abandon his property; but bids him banish from his soul his notions about wealth, his excitement and morbid feeling about it, the anxieties, which are the thorns of existence, which choke the seed of life. |
 | | This is he who is blessed by the Lord, and called poor in spirit, a meet heir of the kingdom of heaven, not one who could not live rich. |
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