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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 13:31-35

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“(Hom. 75. in Matt.) For the twice repeated word betokens compassion or very great love. For the Lord speaks, if we may say it, as a lover would to his mistress who despised him, and was therefore about to be punished.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 13:31-35 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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