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Hilary of Poitiers, on John 1:1
Hilary of Poitiers · c. A.D. 310–367
John 1:1 · Douay-Rheims
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
On this verse:
“(ii. de Trin. c. xiii) Consider then the world, understand what is written of it. In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. Whatever therefore is created is made in the beginning, and thou wouldest contain in time, what, as being to be made, is contained in the beginning. But, lo, for me, an illiterate unlearned fisherman (meus piscator [Hil.]) is independent of time, unconfined by ages, advanceth beyond all beginnings. For the Word was, what it is, and is not bounded by any time, nor commenced therein, seeing It was not made in the beginning, but was.”
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