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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:19-22

Orthodox 1107
Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107
“The title written in three languages signifies that our Lord was King of the whole world; practical, natural, and spiritual1. The Latin denotes the practical, because the Roman empire was the most powerful, and best managed one; the Greek the physical, the Greeks being the best physical philosophers; and, lastly, the Hebrew the theological, because the Jews had been made the depositaries of religious knowledge.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 19:19-22 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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