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Jerome, on Matt 26:20
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
Matt 26:20 · Douay-Rheims
“But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples.”
On this verse:
“We are not to infer from this that man has a being before birth; for it cannot be well with any man till he has a being; it simply implies that it is better not to be, than to be in evil.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.