Luke 3:15
Douay-Rheims
And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ;
Ambrose of Milan
Now what could be more absurd than that he who was fancied to be in another should not be believed in his own person? He whom they thought to have come by a woman, is not believed to have come by a virgin; while in fact the sign of the Divine coming was placed in the childbearing of a virgin, not of a woman.
Source details
A.D. 397 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:15-17
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.