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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:9-13

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“The next weapon he uses is that of boasting, which always causes the offender to fall down; for they who love to boast of the glory of their virtue descend from the stand and vantage ground of their good deeds. Hence it is said, And he led him to Jerusalem.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:9-13 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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