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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 15:20-28

Orthodox 1107

Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107

“They wrote this superscription, as the reason why He was crucified, thus wishing to reprove His vainglory in making Himself a king, that so the passers by might not pity Him, but rather hate Him as a tyrant.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 15:20-28 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗

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