Nam neque ad susceptionem potentium saeculi, vel pecunias colligi, vel domus praevideri necesse fuit, qui nunquam ad ecclesiam nisi orationis tantum, et audiendi verbi Dei causa veniebant.
For neither was it needful that either money should be gathered or houses provided for the entertainment of the powerful of this world, who never used to come to the church but only to pray and hear the word of God.
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