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What the Fathers say

Deuteronomy 20:19

Eastern Fathers

Clement of Alexandria

The Logos in his goodness, richly equipped with love of humankind, teaches that it is not right to cut down cultivated trees, still less to cut crops for purposes of vandalism before harvest, and even less still to destroy, root and branch, cultivated fruit, whether of the land or of the soul. It does not even allow the razing of enemy land. Yes, and farmers find their profit from the law. …

The Stromata Book 2 ↗