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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:1-5

Patristic A.D. 604

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

“(Hom. 8. in Ev.) But the registering of the whole world when our Lord was about to be born was mystical; for He appeared in the flesh Who should write down the names of His own elect in eternity.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:1-5 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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