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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 7:24-28

Patristic A.D. 397
Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397
“But he prepared the way of the Lord not only in the order of birth according to the flesh, and as the messenger of faith, but also as the forerunner of His glorious passion. Hence it follows, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 7:24-28 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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