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Patristic A.D. 604 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 10:21-22

Gregory the Great, on Matt 10:21

Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604

Matt 10:21 · Douay-Rheims

“The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.”

On this verse:

“(Hom. in Ev. xxxv. 3.) Wrongs which we suffer from strangers, pain us less than those we suffer from men on whose affections we had counted; for besides the bodily affliction, there is then the pain of lost affection.”

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