Matthew 5:1 Douay-Rheims

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.

John Chrysostom (attributed)

Patristic

For as all other vices, but chiefly pride, casts down to hell; so all other virtues, but chiefly humility, conduct to Heaven; it is proper that he that humbles himself should be exalted.

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as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:1-3

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

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