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Bede the Venerable — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 22:35-38

Patristic A.D. 735
Bede the Venerable · c. A.D. 672–735
“Or the two swords suffice for a testimony that Jesus suffered voluntarily. The one indeed was to teach the Apostles the presumption of their contending for their Lord, and His inherent virtue of healing; the other never taken out of its sheath, to shew that they were not even permitted to do all that they could for His defence.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 22:35-38 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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