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Patristic A.D. 253 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 22:1-14

Origen, on Matt 22:1

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
Matt 22:1 · Douay-Rheims
“And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:”
On this verse:
“He who has thus insulted the marriage feast is not only cast out therefrom, but besides by the King’s officers, who are set over his prisons, is chained up from that power of walking which he employed not to walk to any good thing, and that power of reaching forth his hand, wherewith he had fulfilled no work for any good; and is sentenced to a place whence all light is banished, which is called outer darkness.”

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