Matthew 3:11 Douay-Rheims

I indeed baptize you in the water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.

Hilary of Poitiers

c. A.D. 310–367 Patristic

The wheat, i. e. the full and perfect fruit of the believer, he declares, shall be laid up in heavenly barns; by the chaff he means the emptiness of the unfruitful.

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A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:11-12

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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