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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 19:41-44

Patristic A.D. 253
Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
“But our Jerusalem is also wept over, because after sin enemies surround it, (that is, wicked spirits,) and cast a trench round it to besiege it, and leave not a stone behind; especially when a man after long continency, after years of chastity, is overcome, and enticed by the blandishments of the flesh, has lost his fortitude and his modesty, and has committed fornication, they will not leave on him one stone upon another, according to Ezekiel, His former righteousness I will not remember. (Ezek 18:24.)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 19:41-44 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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