Luke 23:38 Douay-Rheims

And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Gregory of Nyssa

c. A.D. 335–395 Patristic

Here again, we must examine how the thief should be thought worthy of Paradise, seeing that a flaming sword prevents the entrance of the saints. But observe that the word of God describes it as turning about, so as it should obstruct the unworthy, but open a free entrance to life to the worthy.

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A.D. 395 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 23:38-43

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