You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his.
You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone.
The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.
[Non de tuo largiris pauperi sed de suo reddis. Quod enim commune est in omnium usum datum, tu solus usurpas. Omnium est terra, non divitum.]
Saint Ambrose, c. 339 – 397, De Nabuthae 12, 53
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Thank you Karl, for this nourishment for meditation. According to Ambrose, the redistribution of resources is the responsibility of all of us, from the foundation upwards rather than any notion of “trickling downwards”. Namaste