Luke 2:42 Douay-Rheims

And when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast,

Cyril of Alexandria

A.D. 376–444 Patristic

He says this then by way of shewing that He surpasses all human standards, and hinting that the Holy Virgin was made the handmaid of the work in bringing His flesh unto the world, but that He Himself was by nature and in truth God, and the Son of the Father most high. Now from this let the followers of Valentinus, hearing that the temple was of God, be ashamed to say that the Creator, and the God of the law and of the temple, is not also the Father of Christ.

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A.D. 444 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:42-50

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