And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
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Jerome
AD 420
I pass on to the widow in the Gospel who though she was but a poor widow was yet richer than all the people of Israel. She had but a grain of mustard seed, but she put her leaven in the measures of flour; and, tempering her confession of the Father and of the Son with the grace of the Holy Spirit, cast her two pennies into the treasury. All the substance that she had, all her possessions she offered in the two testaments of her faith. These are like the two seraphim which glorify the trinity with threefold song and are stored among the treasures of the church. They are like the two legs of the tongs by which live coal is caught up to cleanse the sinner’s lips. Letter , To Furia
