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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:29-32

Patristic A.D. 430
Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430
“(de Cons. Ev. lib. ii. c. 39.) Luke indeed relates this in the same place as Matthew, but in a somewhat different order. But who does not see that it is an idle question, in what order our Lord said those things, seeing that we ought to learn by the most precious authority of the Evangelist, that there is no falsehood. But not every man will repeat another’s words in the same order in which they proceeded from his mouth, seeing that the order itself makes no difference with respect to the fact, whether it be so or not.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:29-32 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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