For you have brought here these men, who are neither robbers of temples, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
They wanted to make religion the pretext for what concerned their own money-making: (c) and it was not right on account of private charges to hold a public assembly. For he put them to a nonplus, and left them not a word to say for themselves. There being no cause, he says, for this concourse, for which (matter) we shall not be able to give the account.
