Luke 2:42 Douay-Rheims

And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

Bede the Venerable

c. A.D. 672–735 Patristic

We may also say, that as by the seventh number, so also by the twelfth, (which consists of the parts of seven multiplied alternately by one another,) the universality and perfection of either things or times is signified, and therefore rightly from the number twelve, the glory of Christ takes its beginning, being that by which all places and times are to be filled.

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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:42-50

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