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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 17:26-30

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“The coming of our Lord, which He had compared to lightning flying swiftly across the heavens, He now likens to the days of Noah and Lot, when a sudden destruction came upon mankind.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 17:26-30 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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