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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:1-5

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“And He most perfectly fulfilled what the name Augustus signifies, in that He was both desirous and able to increase (augere) His own.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:1-5 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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