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

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Pseudo-Chrysostom

“Or has your return blow at all restrained him from striking you again? It has rather roused him to another blow. For anger is not checked by meeting anger, but is only more irritated.”

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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