supererogation

The donation would still be an act of “supererogation,” something above and beyond what was required.

It’s an act of supererogation, again.

It was, to use a philosopher’s sesquipedalian word, an act of supererogation.

It is the old idea of works of supererogation over again, in which, as in many other things, they show the closest resemblance to Romanism.

Here comes in Hermas’s doctrine of works of supererogation, in fulfilment of counsels of perfection, on lines already seen in Did. vi.