Luke 2:33 Douay-Rheims

And his father and mother were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning him.

Gregory of Nyssa

c. A.D. 335–395 Patristic

(non occ.) He has joined together honour and dishonour. For to us Christians this sign is a token of honour, but it is a sign of contradiction, inasmuch by some indeed it is received as absurd and monstrous, by others with the greatest veneration. Or perhaps Christ Himself is termed a sign, as having a supernatural existence, and as the author of signs.

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A.D. 395 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:33-35

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