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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:11-12

Patristic A.D. 604

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

“(ubi sup.) Why then does he baptize who could not remit sin, but that he may preserve in all things the office of forerunner? As his birth had preceded Christ’s birth, so his baptism should precede the Lord’s baptism.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:11-12 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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