Luke 2:22
Douay-Rheims
And after the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord:
Bede the Venerable
(ubi sup.) But while each bird, from its habit of wailing, represents the present sorrows of the saints, in this they differ, that the turtle is solitary, but the pigeon flies about in flocks, and hence the one points to the secret tears of confession, the other to the public assembling of the Church.
Source details
A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:22-25
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.