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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:19-21

Patristic A.D. 735
Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
“But those who are said to be our Lord’s brethren according to the flesh, you must not imagine to be the children of the blessed Mary, the mother of God, as Helvidius thinks, nor the children of Joseph by another wife, as some say, but rather believe to be their kinsfolk.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 8:19-21 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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