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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:7-10

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“That men should be made out of stones, is like Isaac coming from Sarah’s womb; Look into the rock, says Isaiah, whence ye were hewn. Reminding them thus of this prophecy, he shews that it is possible that the like might even now happen.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:7-10 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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