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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:6-7

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“(ubi sup.) Now here was no midwife, no tender anxiety of women; she wrapped the Child up in swaddling clothes, herself both mother and midwife.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:6-7 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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