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Rabanus Maurus — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 12:41-42

Medieval A.D. 856

Rabanus Maurus · c. A.D. 780–856

“The Ninevites typify those who cease from sin—the queen those that know not to sin; for penitence puts away sin, wisdom shuns it.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 12:41-42 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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