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Gregory the Great — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:11-12

Patristic A.D. 604

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

“(Hom. in Ev. vii. 3.) John baptizes not with the Spirit but with water, because he had no power to forgive sins; he washes the body with water, but not at the same time the soul with pardon of sin.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:11-12 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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