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Patristic A.D. 450 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 8:5-9

Peter Chrysologus, on Matt 8:5

Peter Chrysologus · c. A.D. 380–450

Matt 8:5 · Douay-Rheims

“And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,”

On this verse:

“(Serm. 102.) Mystically, his house was the body which contained his soul, which contains within it the freedom of the mind by a heavenly vision. But God disdains neither to inhabit flesh, nor to enter the roof of our body.”

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