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Zechariah 4:4

Western Saints

Ambrose of Milan

However, since here in Genesis we read that paradise was planted by God in the East, and there the man whom God formed was placed; we can now find the author of this paradise. For who else could have created paradise but the all-powerful God, who spoke and things came into being, never needing those things which he desired to be generated? Therefore, he himself planted the paradise of which Wisdom says: "Every planting that my Father has not planted will be rooted up" (Matthew 15:13). Good planting of angels, good saints. …

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