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Patristic A.D. 430 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 5:8

Augustine of Hippo, on Matt 5:8

Augustine of Hippo · A.D. 354–430

Matt 5:8 · Douay-Rheims

“Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.”

On this verse:

“(Serm. in Mont. i. 2.) They are foolish who seek to see God with the bodily eye, seeing He is seen only by the heart, as it is elsewhere written, In singleness of heart seek ye Him; (Wisd. 1:1.) the single heart is the same as is here called the pure heart.”

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