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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:79

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“Christ is rightly called the Day-spring, because He hath disclosed to us the rising of the true light, as it follows; To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:79 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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