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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 13:1-9

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“He first sets forth a parable to make His hearers more attentive, and because He was about to speak enigmatically, He attracts the attention by this first parable, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow his seed.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 13:1-9 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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