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Augustine of Hippo — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:28-33

Patristic A.D. 430

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

“Or the ten thousand of him who is going to fight with the king who has twenty, signify the simplicity of the Christian about to contend with the subtlety of the devil.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 14:28-33 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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