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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:36-38

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“(Hom. Ixxxiii.) He says, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder, because the disciples adhered inseparably to Christ; but it was His practice to pray apart from them, therein teaching us to study quiet and retirement for our prayers.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:36-38 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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