But Peter said unto him, Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
since you have not used it as it ought to be used. These are not words of imprecation, but of chastisement. To you, he says, be it (to you): being such. As if one should say, Let it perish along with your purpose. Have you so mean conceptions of the gift of God, that you have imagined it to be altogether a thing of man? It is not this. (a) Wherefore also Peter well calls the affair a gift: You have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Do you observe how on all occasions they are clean from money? For your heart is not right in the sight of God.
