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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:37-44

Patristic A.D. 397
Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397
“Or judgment, because they do not bring to examination every thing that they do; charity, because they love not God with their heart. But that He might not make us zealous of the faith, to the neglect of good works, He sums up the perfection of a good man in a few words, these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:37-44 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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