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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:15-24

Patristic A.D. 253
Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
“Or else, they who have bought a piece of ground and reject or refuse the supper, are they who have taken other doctrines of divinity, but have despised the word which they possessed. But he who has bought five yoke of oxen is he who neglects his intellectual nature, and follows the things of sense, therefore he cannot comprehend a spiritual nature. But he who has married a wife is he who is joined to the flesh, a lover of pleasure rather than of God. (1 Tim. 3:4.)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:15-24 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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