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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:33-36

Patristic A.D. 253

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253

“For He gives the name of the eye especially to our understanding, but the whole soul, although not corporeal, He metaphorically calls the body. For the whole soul is enlightened by the understanding.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 11:33-36 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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