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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:1-3

Orthodox 1107
Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107
“But the Lord seeks to avoid glory the more it followed Him, and therefore separating Himself from the multitude, He entered into a ship, as it is said, And he saw two ships standing near the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:1-3 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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