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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 21:1-9

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“But it seems that the Lord could not in so short a distance have sate upon both animals; seeing then that the history has either an impossibility or a meanness, we are sent to higher things, that is, to the figurative sense.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 21:1-9 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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