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Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto you; but return not you unto them.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Let us catch them, then, by our mode of life; and by these souls let us build up the church, and of these let us amass our wealth. There is nothing to weigh against a soul, not even the whole world. Thus, although one may give countless treasure to the poor, in so doing he will not do such work as one who converts one soul. “For he who takes forth the precious from the vile shall be as my mouth,” so God speaks. A great good it is, I grant, to have pity on the poor, but it is nothing equal to removing them from error.

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