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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 18:15-17

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“Hence our Lord pointedly says, of such, not “of these,” to shew that to character, not to age, is the kingdom given, and to such as have a childlike innocence and simplicity is the promise of the reward.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 18:15-17 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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