Luke 4:5 Douay-Rheims

And the devil led him into a high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time;

Bede the Venerable

c. A.D. 672–735 Patristic

But some one may ask how this injunction agrees with the word of the Apostle, which says, Beloved, serve one another. (Gal. 5:13.) In the Greek, δουλεία signifies a common service, (i. e. given either to God or man,) according to which we are bid to serve one another; but λατρεία is the service due to the worship of the Deity, with which we are bid to serve God alone.

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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:5-8

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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