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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:1-4

Patristic A.D. 253

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253

“But Jesus is tempted by the devil forty days, and what the temptations were we know not. They were perhaps omitted, as being greater than could be committed to writing.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:1-4 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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