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Ambrose of Milan — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:26

Patristic A.D. 397

Ambrose of Milan · A.D. 339–397

“(de Sacr. iv. 5.) Before consecration, it is bread; after Christ’s words, This is my body, have been pronounced, it is Christ’s Body.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:26 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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