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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:23-25

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“For it is a shame among women not to receive that reward of marriage, which is the only cause of their being married.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:23-25 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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