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Alcuin of York — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 7:40-53

Medieval A.D. 804
Alcuin of York · c. A.D. 735–804
“These had now begun to drink in that spiritual thirst1, and had laid aside the unbelieving thirst. But others still remained dried up in their unbelief: But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? They knew what were the predictions of the Prophets respecting Christ, but knew not that they all were fulfilled in Him. They knew that He had been brought up at Nazareth, but the place of His birth they did not know; and did not believe that it answered to the prophecies.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 7:40-53 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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