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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 19:11-27

Patristic A.D. 735

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735

“A pound which the Greeks call μνᾶ is equal in weight to a hundred drachmas, and every word of Scripture, as suggesting to us the perfection of the heavenly life, shines as it were with the greatness of the hundredth number.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 19:11-27 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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