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Theophylact of Ohrid — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 14:17-21

Orthodox 1107

Theophylact of Ohrid · c. 1055–1107

“But how could they eat reclining, when the law ordered that standing and upright they should eat the Passover? It is probable that they had first fulfilled the legal Passover, and had reclined, when He began to give them His own Passover.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 14:17-21 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗

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