Matthew 2:19
Douay-Rheims
But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt,
Remigius of Auxerre
Or the Evangelist uses a figure of speech, by which the plural is used for the singular. These words, the Child’s life, (or soul, i. e. the Apollinarians.) overthrow those heretics who taught that Christ did not take a soul, but had His Divinity in place of a soul.
Source details
A.D. 908 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 2:19-20
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.