Some think that the Old Testament is stricter than the New,
but they are judging wrongly: they are fooling themselves. The
old Law did not punish the desire to hold onto wealth: it
punished theft. But now the rich man is not condemned because
he has taken the property of others: rather, he is condemned
for not giving his own property away.
St. Gregory the Great (540?-604)
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