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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 23:26-32

Orthodox 1107
Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107
“As though He said to the Jews, If then the Romans have so raged against Me, a fruit-bearing and ever flourishing tree, what will they not attempt against you the people, who are a dry tree, destitute of every lifegiving virtue, and bearing no fruit?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 23:26-32 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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