That It is Better to Afford, Though It Be Inconsiderable and Few, Contributions to the Widows from Our Own Labours, Than Those Which are Many and Large Received from the Ungodly; For It is Better to Perish by Famine Than to Receive an Oblation from the Ungodly.
Ante-Nicene Fathers — American Roberts / Donaldson / Coxe edition, Volume VII · Constitutions of the Holy Apostles — unspecified — eng