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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 20:10-18

Patristic A.D. 604
Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604
“(Hom. xxv.) The Evangelist does not add what she did upon recognising Him, but we know from what our Lord said to her: Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not. Mary then had tried to embrace His feet, but was not allowed. Why not? The reason follows: For I am not yet ascended to My Father.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 20:10-18 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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