Luke 14:20 Douay-Rheims

And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Basil of Caesarea

c. A.D. 330–379 Patristic

But he says, I cannot come, because that the human mind when it is degenerating to worldly pleasures, is feeble in attending to the things of God.

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A.D. 379 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:15-24

PD · Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels — St. Luke ↗

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