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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:25

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“He does not hereby mean that the 1spirit needs food, for it is incorporeal, but He speaks according to common usage, for the soul cannot remain in the body unless the body be fed.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:25 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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