It is enough that they share with others the enjoyment
of your general beneficence; still I feel it incumbent upon me too to
interest myself in their case. I therefore submit it to your more
perfect judgment, that men who have
long since taken leave of this life, who have mortified their own
bodies, so that they have neither money to spend nor bodily service to
render in the interests of the common weal, should be exempted from
taxation. For if their lives are consistent with their
profession, they possess neither money nor bodies; for the former is
spent in communicating to the needy; while their bodies are worn away
in prayer and fasting.