Matthew 1:20 Douay-Rheims

But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.

Rabanus Maurus

c. A.D. 780–856 Medieval

How the Angel appeared to Joseph is declared in the words, In his sleep; that is, as Jacob saw the ladder offered by a kind of imagining to the eyes of his heart.

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A.D. 856 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:20

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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