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Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), Sandro Botticelli

Catena Aurea on Luke 20:27–40: Augustine of Hippo

Sandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480 · Ognissanti, Florence · Public domainSandro Botticelli, Saint Augustine in His Study (detail), c. 1480, Ognissanti, Florence

CommentAugustine of HippoPublic domainLuke 20:27–40

For marriages are for the sake of children, children for succession, succession because of death. Where then there is no death, there are no marriages; and hence it follows, But they which shall be accounted worthy, &c.

Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).

Also cites: de Quæst. Ev. l. ii. cap. 49.

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