And he taught, saying unto them,
Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
She has none to whom to make such a promise; and if she have had, she does not make it; since even the earthly temple of God can sooner have been called by the Lord a "den of robbers"