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What the Fathers say

Deuteronomy 16:19

Western Saints

Bonaventure

Just as mercy is a friend of wisdom, so avarice is its enemy. The avaricious deride all who do not love money. "Gifts blind the eyes of the wise and alter the words of the just." They blind the eyes, not bodily, but spiritual; therefore they take away the light of wisdom.

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 9 ↗