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Hilary of Poitiers — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:1

Patristic A.D. 367

Hilary of Poitiers · c. A.D. 310–367

“(ii. de Trin. c. 13) Years, centuries, ages, are passed over, place what beginning thou wilt in thy imagining, thou graspest it not in time, for He, from Whom it is derived, still was.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:1 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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