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Bede the Venerable
Catena Aurea · Lukasevangelium 1
Lk 1, 69English original
And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.
The kingdom of our Saviour Christ is called also the horn of salvation, because all our bones are clothed with flesh, but the horn alone stretches beyond the flesh; so the kingdom of Christ is called the horn of salvation, as reaching beyond the world and the delights of the flesh. According to which figure David and Solomon were consecrated by the horn of oil to the glory of the kingdom.