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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 8:34-38

Orthodox 1107

Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107

“For a man who denies another, be it brother or father, does not sympathize with him, nor grieve at his fate, though he be wounded and die; thus we ought to despise our body, so that if it should be wounded or hurt in any way, we should not mind its suffering.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 8:34-38 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗

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