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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:19

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“Or this may be considered a testimony to Mary, that Joseph, confident in her purity, and wondering at what had happened, covered in silence that mystery which he could not explain.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:19 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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