Matthew 4:8 Douay-Rheims

Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

Origen

c. A.D. 184–253 Patristic

(in Luc. Hom. 30.) We are not to suppose that when he shewed Him the kingdoms of the world, he presented before Him the kingdom of Persia, for instance, or India; but he shewed his own kingdom, how he reigns in the world, that is, how some are governed by fornication, some by avarice.

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A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:8-11

PD · Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels — St. Matthew ↗

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