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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:31-37

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“The word of the teacher is with power, when he performs that which he teaches. But he who by his actions belies what he preaches is despised.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 4:31-37 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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