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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 11:11-15

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“We understand it simply, that every saint who is already with the Lord is greater than he who yet stands in the battle; for it is one thing to have gained the crown of victory, another to be yet fighting in the field.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 11:11-15 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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