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Cyril of Alexandria — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 13:31-35

Patristic A.D. 444
Cyril of Alexandria · A.D. 376–444
“Now that they were unmindful of the Divine blessings He proves as follows, How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not. He led them by the hand of Moses full of all wisdom. He warns them by His prophets, He wished to have them under His wings, (i. e. under the shelter of His power,) but they deprived themselves of these choice blessings, through their ingratitude.”
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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