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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:5-9

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“Jesus here does what He never did; He always follows the wish of the supplicant, but here He goes before it, and not only promises to heal him, but to go to his house. This He does, that we may learn the worthiness of the centurion.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:5-9 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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