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Observe, the hospitality here spoken of is not merely a friendly reception, but one given with zeal and alacrity, with readiness, and going about it, as if one were receiving Christ himself …If you receive the stranger as Christ, do not be ashamed, but rather glory: but if you do not receive him as Christ, do not receive him at all. “He who receives you,” he says, “received me” (Mt. 10.40).
+ St. John Chrysostom: Homilies XIII and XIV on I Timothy V
