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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:5-7

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“Observe that Scripture is brought forward by the Lord only with an apt meaning, but by the Devil irreverently; for that where it is written, He shall give his Angels charge over thee, is not an exhortation to cast Himself headlong.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:5-7 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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