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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
“Mystically interpreted; When we are smitten on the right cheek, He said not, offer to him thy left, but the other; for the righteous has not a left. That is, if a heretic has smitten us in disputation, and would wound us in a right hand doctrine, let him be met with another testimony from Scripture.”
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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