How much cloth would it take to make God's coat? Just as much as for me, for what you have done for a poor person in my name you have done for me

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How much cloth would it take to make God's coat? Just as much as for me, for what you have done for a poor person in my name you have done for me.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Reductio ad absurdum of question or proposal. · view the constellation · filed as J1291.3.1

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 325.

Within the index

Filed under How many priests should one have in one place? How many fox tails will reach to heaven? All depends on the length of the tails.

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