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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:39-44

Patristic A.D. 253

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253

“And though Jesus went but a little forward, they could not watch one hour in His absence; let us therefore pray that Jesus may never depart even a little from us.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:39-44 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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