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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:5-7

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“But as Satan transfigures himself into an Angel of light, and spreads a snare for the faithful, even from the divine Scriptures, so now he uses its texts, not to instruct but to receive.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:5-7 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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