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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 6:17-29

Orthodox 1107

Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107

“Herod not being his own master, but full of lust, fulfilled his oath, and slew the just man; it would have been better however to break his oath, than to commit so great a sin.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 6:17-29 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗

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