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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 10:3-4

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“Our Lord did not then forbid these things because the exercise of benevolence was displeasing to Him, but because the motive of following after devotedness was more pleasing.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 10:3-4 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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