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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 23:33

Orthodox 1107

Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107

“Because also by a tree death bad entered, it must needs be that by a tree it should be abolished, and that the Lord passing unconquered through the pains of a tree should subdue the pleasures which flow from a tree.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 23:33 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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