John 1:1
Douay-Rheims
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Origen
(Hom. ii. divers. loc.) The verb to be, has a double signification, sometimes expressing the motions which take place in time, as other verbs do; sometimes the substance of that one thing of which it is predicated, without reference to time. Hence it is also called a substantive verb.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 1:1
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.