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Bede the Venerable, on Luke 12:54
Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
Luke 12:54 · Douay-Rheims
“And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth:”
On this verse:
“Or, they who from the change of the elements can easily when they like predetermine the state of the weather, might if they wished also understand the time of our Lord’s coming from the words of the Prophets.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.