Basil charged that if the rich truly loved their neighbors, they would have divested themselves of their wealth long ago. “But now your possessions are more a part of you than the members of your own body, and separation from them is as painful as the amputation of one of your limbs. Had you clothed the naked, had you given your bread to the hungry, had your door been open to every stranger, had you been a parent to the orphan, had you made the suffering of every helpful person your own, what money would you have left, the loss of which to grieve?”11
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