And if you greet your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the tax collectors so?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And to signify that He requires nothing very overpowering, but a little more than was accustomed, He says,
Do not even the Gentiles the same? Matthew 5:47 Yet nevertheless He stops not the discourse at this, but makes it end with His rewards, and those good hopes, saying,
