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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 15:25-32

Patristic A.D. 397
Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397
“But the younger son, that is the Gentile people, is envied by Israel as the elder brother, the privilege of his father’s blessing. Which the Jews did because Christ sat down to meat with the Gentiles, as it follows; And he was angry, and would not go in, &c.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 15:25-32 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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