Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
Let no one think that he is to be paid more deference because he is rich. In the church a person is rich if he is rich in faith, for the faithful person has a whole world of riches. Is it strange that the faithful person owns the world, since he owns Christ’s inheritance, which is more priceless than the world? “You were redeemed with the precious blood,” surely was said to all, not only to the rich.
“He who laughs at the poor irritates his creator.” Why? Because God is the creator of the poor. Who is so cruel, who is so inhuman, that when he should be moved to compassion he laughs instead? Certainly this too will have to be punished. That person will perish because he sins against the high and wise providence of God. Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, Fragment
