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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 6:12-16

Patristic A.D. 397
Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397
“Let not thy ears be open to deceit, that thou shouldest think that the Son of God prays from want of strength, that He may obtain what He could not perform; for being Himself the Author of power, the Master of obedience, He leads us by His own example to the precepts of virtue.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 6:12-16 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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