When the children of Israel had been freed from slavery in Egypt by the immolation of the paschal lamb, they went out through the desert so that they might come to the promised land, and they reached Mount Sinai. On the fiftieth day after the Passover, the Lord descended upon the mountain in fire, accompaniedContinue reading “Bede on Pentecost”
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Bede on the deaf man of Mark 7
The deaf-mute, of whose marvelous cure by our Lord we have just now heard when the Gospel was read, represents those members of the human race who merit being freed by divine grace from the error brought on by the devil’s deceit. Man became deaf, unable to hear the word of life after, puffed upContinue reading “Bede on the deaf man of Mark 7”
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