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Verses Against the Rich

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2024

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Blackfriars , Volume 25 , Issue 295 , October 1944 , pp. 384 - 390
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Copyright © 1944 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1

Moral Poems, XXVIII. Text in Migne, P.G., 37, cols. 856–884.

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2 ‘Get blood from a stone’; for the next line, c.f. Habacuc I: 16.

3 All taking of oaths was commonly suspect among Christians; St. Gregory has a whole poem on the subject (Moral Poems, XXIVGoogle Scholar).

4 Cf. Judges 11: 24. Chemos or Chamos was a Moabite god, here taken as patron of riches, in Paradise Lost as patron of lust (I. 406 sqq.).