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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:36-38

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“Simeon had prophesied, a woman united in marriage had prophesied, a virgin had prophesied, it was meet also that a widow should prophesy, that there might lack no sex or condition of life, and therefore it is said, And there was one Anna a prophetess.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:36-38 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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