A Byzantine Christian in a Postmodern World: The Fathers of the Revolution Part 3: Rebuke the Oppressor (Isaiah 1:17, NKJV): "You may say 'words are alright; but gold is better.' Talking to you is like talking to a lustful man about chastity: when one says something against him keeping a mistress, the mention of her name only goes to heat up his lust. How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make you understand that your wealth comes from their weeping?
- St. Basil the Great
The bread which the rich eat belongs to others more than them. They live on stolen goods. What they pay comes from what they have seized....You have gold dug up from mines, only to re-bury it. And how many lives are buried with it! And this wealth is kept for whom? For your heir, who waits idly to receive it....it is not the poor who are cursed, but the rich. Scripture says of the rich, not of the poor, that the man who increases the price of corn will be cursed....who is the wise man? The one who shows compassion on the poor, who sees the poor as natural members of his family.
- St. Ambrose"
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