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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:8-11

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“(in Luc. c. iv. 11.) Ambition has its dangers at home; that it may govern, it is first others’ slave; it bows in flattery that it may rule in honour; and while it would be exalted, it is made to stoop.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 4:8-11 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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