Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth

For as it is disagreeable to walk among thistles with naked feet, so also it is hard for such to enter the kingdom of God.[37]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

Again, "Don't sail on land" is a Pythagorean saw, and shows that taxes and similar contracts, being troublesome and fluctuating, ought to be declined. Wherefore also the Word says that the tax-gatherers shall be saved with difficulty.[71]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

joys?-which, indeed, is chiefly found among the wealthier; for the more any is rich, and inflated with the name of "matron," the more capacious house does she require for her burdens, as it were a field wherein ambition may run its course. To such the churches look paltry. A rich man is a difficult thing (to find) in the house of God;[56]

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