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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:38-42

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“Thus our Lord by doing away all retaliation, cuts off the beginnings of sin. So the Law corrects faults, the Gospel removes their occasions.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:38-42 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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