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Patristic A.D. 735 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 19:11-27

Bede the Venerable, on Luke 19:11

Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
Luke 19:11 · Douay-Rheims
“As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested.”
On this verse:
“The mystical meaning I suppose is this, that at the coming in of the Gentiles all Israel shall be saved, (Rom. 11:26.) and that then the abundant grace of the Spirit will be poured out upon the teachers.”
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