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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:79

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“Mark also, in how few words Elisabeth prophesies, in how many Zacharias, and yet each spoke filled with the Holy Spirit; but this discipline is preserved, that women may study rather to learn what are the Divine commands than to teach them.”

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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