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Patristic A.D. 604 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 2:3-6

Gregory the Great, on Matt 2:3

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

Matt 2:3 · Douay-Rheims

“And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.”

On this verse:

“(Hom. in Evang. i. 10.) At the birth of a King of Heaven, a king of earth is troubled; surely, earthly greatness is confounded, when heavenly greatness shews itself.”

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