“But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
Do not neglect (epilanthano) to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices please (euaresteo) God — good works (agathos) and generosity (koinonia) are sacrifices acceptable to God. Philanthropy becomes worship.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 13:16
“But to do good and to communicate forget not.” I speak not [merely] with reference to the brethren present, but to those absent also. But if others have plundered your property, display your hospitality out of such things as you have. What excuse then shall we have henceforward, when they, even after the spoiling of their goods, were thus admonished? And he did not say, “Be not forgetful” of the entertaining of strangers, but “of hospitality”: that is, do not merely…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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