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• and ask whether this was the reward he had hoped for when he gave alms, and went a-burying; (Tobit 2, 16)

• Use thy wealth in giving of alms; never turn thy back on any man who is in need, and the Lord, in thy own need, will have eyes for thee. (Tobit 4, 7)

• alms-deeds were ever a sovereign way of escape from guilt and death, a bar against the soul’s passage into darkness; (Tobit 4, 11)

• The God of Israel bless thee, he cried, for the son of an excellent honest man, his true worshipper, and a great giver of alms! (Tobit 9, 9)

• Prayer, fasting, and alms, said he, here is better treasure to lay up than any store of gold. (Tobit 12, 8)

• and hand on this charge to your children, that they should do what the law enjoins and give alms freely, that they should keep God ever in mind, offering him faithful praise at all times, and with all their strength. (Tobit 14, 11)

• Did I deny some poor man the alms he craved, keep the widow waiting for her pittance, (Job 31, 16)

• Rich are his alms to the needy; still his bounty abides in memory.✻ The Lord will lift up his head in triumph; (Psalms 111, 9)

• My son, do not cheat a poor man of the alms he asks, nor pass him by, with averted look, in his need. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 1)

• It goes ill with the man who spends all his time courting the wicked, and alms gives none; does not the most High himself treat sinners as his enemies, never sparing them till they repent? (Ecclesiasticus 12, 3)

• The friendless man deserves thy alms; to the godless give nothing; nay, prevent food reaching him, or he will have the mastery of thee. (Ecclesiasticus 12, 6)

• Alms if thou givest, thou hast the sign-manual of his favour; treasured as the apple of his eye is the record of man’s deserving.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 17, 18)