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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:17-26

Patristic A.D. 397
Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397
“Or it may reseek its own home, i. e. return to Paradise, for that is its true home, which first received man, and was lost not fairly, but by treachery. Rightly then is the soul restored thither, since He has come Who will undo the treacherous knot, and reestablish righteousness.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:17-26 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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