Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Avoiding this. I have sent Titus and Luke to collect such large alms that no one may suspect me of collecting for my own private use (Anselm). The possession of large sums of money is wont to expose a man to suspicion of fraud, because it is easy to abstract a little secretly from a large amount without any one being aware of it.