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Medieval A.D. 856 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 2:21-23

Rabanus Maurus, on Matt 2:21

Rabanus Maurus · c. A.D. 780–856
Matt 2:21 · Douay-Rheims
“Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.”
On this verse:
“Or, we may apply it to the last times of the Jewish Church, when many Jews having turned to the preaching of Enoch and Elijah, the rest filled with the spirit of Antichrist shall fight against the faith. So that part of Judæa where Archelaus rules, signifies the followers of Antichrist; Nazareth of Galilee, whither Christ is conveyed, that part of the nation that shall embrace the faith. Galilee means ‘removal;’ Nazareth, ‘the flower of virtues;’ for the Church the more zealously she removes from the earthly to the heavenly, the more she abounds in the flower and fruit of virtues.”

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

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