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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:20

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“But by saying, Be not afraid, he shews him to be in fear that he had offended God, by having an adulteress; for only as such would he have ever thought of putting her away.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:20 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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