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Hilary of Poitiers — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 24:15-22

Patristic A.D. 367
Hilary of Poitiers · c. A.D. 310–367
“That which is said, Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, is not to be taken literally as an admonition to women pregnant, but as a description of souls burdened with the weight of sin, that neither in the house, nor in the field, may escape the storm of the wrath that is in store for them. Woe also to those that are being suckled; the weak souls, that is, who are being brought to the knowledge of God as by milk, to whom it shall be woe, because they are too laden to fly, and too inexperienced to resist Antichrist, having neither escaped sin, nor partaken of the food of true bread.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 24:15-22 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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