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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:18

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“(De Spir. Sanct. ii. 5.) That which is of any thing is either of the substance or the power of that thing; of the substance, as the Son who is of the Father; of the power, as all things are of God, even as Mary was with child of the Holy Spirit.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:18 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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