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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 22:43-46

Orthodox 1107
Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107
“That is, that they should not be overcome by temptation, for not to be led into temptation is not to be overwhelmed by it. Or He simply bids us pray that our life may be quiet, and we be not cast into trouble of any kind. For it is of the devil and presumptuous, for a man to throw himself into temptation. Therefore James said not, “Cast yourselves into temptation,” but, When ye are fallen, count it all joy, (Jam. 1:2.) making a voluntary act out of an involuntary.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 22:43-46 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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