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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

“It is the fate of boasting, that while a man thinks he is climbing higher, he is by his pretension to lofty deeds brought low. Hence it follows, And he said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, throw thyself down.”

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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