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Pseudo-Chrysostom
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 2
Mt 2, 12English original
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
It was impossible that they, who left Herod to go to Christ, should return to Herod. They who have by sin left Christ and passed to the devil, often return to Christ; for the innocent, who knows not what is evil, is easily deceived, but having once tasted the evil he has taken up, and remembering the good he has left, he returns in penitence to God. He who has forsaken the devil and come to Christ, hardly returns to the devil; for rejoicing in the good he has found, and remembering the evil he has escaped, with difficulty returns to that evil.