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Basil of Caesarea — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:54-55

Patristic A.D. 379

Basil of Caesarea · c. A.D. 330–379

“(non occ.) For by Israel she means not Israel after the flesh, whom their own title made noble, but the spiritual Israel, which retained the name of faith, straining their eyes to see God by faith.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:54-55 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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