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John of Damascus — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:11-14

Patristic A.D. 749

John of Damascus · A.D. 676–749

“(de fide Orthodox. ii. 3.) Angels, however, are revealed not as they really are, but transformed (as men are able to behold them) into whatever the Lord commands.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:11-14 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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