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Rabanus Maurus — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1

Medieval A.D. 856
Rabanus Maurus · c. A.D. 780–856
“By saying, of Jesus Christ, he expresses both the kingly and priestly office to be in Him, for Jesus, who first bore this name, was after Moses, the first who was leader of the children of Israel; and Aaron, anointed by the mystical ointment, was the first priest under the Law.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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