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John Chrysostom — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 27:39-44

Patristic A.D. 407

John Chrysostom · A.D. 347–407

“(Hom. de Cruc. et Latr. ii.) But He, on the contrary, does not come down from the cross, because He is the Son of God; for He therefore came that He might be crucified for us.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 27:39-44 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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