Exhortation to Bishops, that they watch/idly take care not to receive gifts
from those who are guilty, as for the provision of orphans and widows and
the poor, not even if they are constrained to be degraded by hunger, and that
they are guilty if they accept ; and that the prayers of the poor are not heard
when they pray for them that are such, being supplied by their goods. It is f. 57 a
fitting that they receive from the believing and the honest for the provision of
the poor, and for the redemption of prisoners and the oppressed,