A citation from the library
Oecumenius, on 1John 4:5
Oecumenius · c. A.D. 550
1John 4:5 · Douay-Rheims
“They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.”
On this verse:
“They are from the world, therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. For a similar thing runs to its like. "They are from the world, therefore they speak from the world." They are of the world, and when they speak of the world, that is, they teach according to fleshly desires, they have those who obey them, the perverse with the perverse. But we, being from God and alienated from fleshly desires, cannot be received by them.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.