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What the Fathers say

1 Kings 21:9

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

How clearly the custom of the rich is portrayed! They are made sad if they are not seizing the property of others; they renounce food, they fast, not that they may lessen their sin but that they may commit crime. You may see them at such times coming to church, dutiful, humble and assiduous, in order that they may deserve to obtain the accomplishment of their wickedness. …

On Naboth the Jezreelite 10.44-45 ↗