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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:11-14

Patristic A.D. 253

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253

“For when a just man is born into the world, the authors of his birth rejoice; but when one is born who is to be as it were an exile to labour and punishment, they are struck with terror and dismay.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:11-14 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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