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Basil of Caesarea — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:3-6

Patristic A.D. 379

Basil of Caesarea · c. A.D. 330–379

“(non occ.) And because a path is a way trodden down by those that have gone before, and which former men have worn away, the word bids those who depart from the zeal of their predecessors repeatedly pursue it.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:3-6 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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