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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:4 (from his Exposition of the Gospel of Luke)

Patristic A.D. 390

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“Lastly, though to others it is commanded, Let down your nets, to Peter alone it is said, Launch out into the deep, i. e. into deep researches. What is so deep, as the knowledge of the Son of God!”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 5:4 (from his Exposition of the Gospel of Luke) PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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