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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 6:12-16

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“But in a mystical sense the mountain on which our Lord chose His disciples represents the loftiness of justice in which they were to be instructed, and which they were to preach to others; so also the law was given on a mountain.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 6:12-16 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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