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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:22-27

Patristic A.D. 253
Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
“For when a famine came upon the people of Israel, i. e. of hearing the word of God, a prophet came to a widow, of whom it is said, For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband; (Isa. 54:1, Gal. 4:27.) and when he had come, he multiplies her bread and her nourishment.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:22-27 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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