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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:1-3

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“Or, the poor in spirit may be those who fear and tremble at God’s commandments, whom the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah commends. Though why more than simply humble? Of the humble there may be in this place but few, in that again an abundance.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:1-3 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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